Sep 18, 2026
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Will Durant (often attributed to Aristotle) | Quote Explained
A deep analysis of one of the most quoted lines in the self-improvement canon — why “we are what we repeatedly do” is read as Aristotle, why it is really a 1926 paraphrase by Will Durant, what Aristotle actually wrote about habit in the Nicomachean Ethics, and how the line's true authorship makes it more useful, not less.
