We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Yet habit without reflection is merely the armor of the sleepwalker.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit — yet habit itself is the enemy of wonder, and wonder is the beginning of philosophy.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. But habit itself is not merely repetition — it is the slow carving of character, the way water shapes stone not by force but by persistence.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. And it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparent' ordinary people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.