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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle-

"If you cut corners in business, you are a shady operator, and you are developing the character of a shady operator. You are becoming practiced at it, it is becoming a habit. And if you tell yourself that you are really an honest and upright person who happens to practice deceit and chicanery in her daily behavior, then you are adding self-deception to the rest of your deceitful character. You are not what you wear, or what you drive, or what you eat, and you are not what you pretend to yourself to be, or wish you were; you are instead what you do. One who lies is a liar, and telling lies entrenches that character trait. If you do less than your best, you develop the habit, and you become--you make yourself-- a slothful person. Becoming virtuous is not something we do at some later point when we gain true moral wisdom, or finally reach enlightenment, or have sufficient time for it; becoming virtuous is what we do in the everyday practice of our lives. The acts you sow shape the character you reap."

-Bruce N. Waller-

Consider Ethics: Theory, Readings, and Contemporary Issues. 2008