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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

It is easy to fly into a passion; anyone can do that. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, this is not easy.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly, one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

It is not what we have, but what we enjoy that constitutes abundance.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.