Art Quote by Aristotle

“Again, of all the things that come to us by nature we first acquire the potentiality and later exhibit the activity (this is plain…

— Aristotle

Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be…

— Marcel Proust

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by…

— Aristotle

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by…

— Aristotle

We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.

— Ted Malloch

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to…

— Aristotle

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

— Seneca the Younger

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and…

— Aristotle

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

— Sidney Lanier

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

— Ovid

Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

— Allen W. Wood