My favourite quote today was:
"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."
We become better people within ourselves, along the upward-spiraling path which is our life. Sometimes the journey is slow, sometimes quicker. Hopefully we get there in the end.