800 Inspiring Aristotle Quotes About Leadership
1. To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
2. “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”- Aristotle
3. “Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.” – Aristotle
4. “It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.” ~ Aristotle
5. “The happy life is one in accordance with virtue and unimpeded.”
6. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.” – Aristotle
7. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
8. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.” – Aristotle
9. “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” — Aristotle Onassis
10. “We must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.”
11. “Teaching is the highest form of understanding.” — Aristotle
12. “It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.” — Aristotle
13. Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas. (Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.)
14. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
15. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
16. “Education is the best provision for old age.”
17. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
18. “Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.” — Aristotle
19. “For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”
20. Hope is a waking dream. —Aristotle.RD.COM
21. A Friend Is One Soul Abiding In Two Bodies. — Aristotle
22. “From these things it is evident, then, that the city belongs among the things that exist by nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.”
23. “Liars, when they speak the truth, are not believed.”- Aristotle
24. No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
25. “Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.”- Aristotle
26. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
27. “Nature does nothing uselessly.” — Aristotle
28. “Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy.”
29. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” ~ Aristotle
30. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle
31. It is not enough to win a war. It is more important to organize the peace.
32. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
33. “Hope is a waking dream.” ~ Aristotle
34. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
35. “Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”- Aristotle
36. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” -Aristotle, Greek Philosopher and Scientist
37. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”~ Aristotle
38. “The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.” — Aristotle
39. “Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history, for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”- Aristotle
40. “Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.” – Aristotle
41. ”Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” – Aristotle
42. “Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.” ― Aristotle
43. “Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.”
44. “First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end” – Aristotle
45. “Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.”
46. “The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. – Aristotle
47. “Aristotle once said, To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.” – Dave Ramsey
48. “All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.” — Aristotle
49. “We Are What We Frequently Do.” – Aristotle
50. Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
51. The gods too are fond of a joke.
52. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.”- Aristotle
53. “The aim of the wise is to not secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” – Aristotle
54. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” ~ Aristotle
55. “The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” – Aristotle
56. He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
57. “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” — Aristotle
58. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” - Aristotle
59. “To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.” – Aristotle
60. A Friend Is One Soul Abiding In Two Bodies. Aristotle. "A Friend Is One Soul Abiding In Two Bodies." Aristotle
61. “We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.” — Aristotle
62. “A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious.”
63. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
64. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” — Aristotle
65. “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
66. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
67. Nature does nothing in vain. Aristotle
68. “As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.”
69. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.” — Aristotle
70. “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.” – Aristotle
71. The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
72. Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
73. The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
74. We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
75. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
76. “Make the best use of what’s in your power and take the rest as it happens.”
77. “The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”
78. Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
79. “The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.” – Aristotle
80. “A friend to all is a friend to none.” — Aristotle
81. Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
82. “If the art of shipbuilding were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.” — Aristotle
83. “The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.” ― Aristotle
84. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
85. “If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.” — Aristotle
86. “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” — Aristotle
87. “It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.” – Aristotle
88. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” – Aristotle
89. “Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.” — Aristotle
90. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”―Aristotle
91. “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
92. Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle
93. The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
94. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor.” — Aristotle
95. The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
96. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” ~ Aristotle
97. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
98. “The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it. — Aristotle
99. “Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.” – Samuel Smiles
100. “The soul never thinks without a picture.” – Aristotle
101. “All men, by nature, desire knowledge.”- Aristotle
102. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle, Philosopher
103. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
104. "Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle
105. “You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.”
106. Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
107. “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
108. “A friend to all is a friend to none.” — AristotleRD.COM
109. “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” – Aristotle
110. “The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
111. “It is evident, then, that it is better for property to be private, but to make it common in use.”
112. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
113. “The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.”- Aristotle
114. “Every realm of nature is marvelous.” — Aristotle
115. “Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.” — Aristotle
116. “The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
117. “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” — Aristotle
118. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
119. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors but in deserving them.”- Aristotle
120. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”- Aristotle
121. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honour.” – Aristotle
122. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”— Aristotle
123. “A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.” — Aristotle
124. Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
125. “Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.”- Aristotle
126. “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.” — Aristotle
127. “Fate of empires depends on the education of youth.” — Aristotle
128. “The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.” — Aristotle
129. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle
130. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.” — Aristotle
131. “It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.” — Aristotle
132. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” – Aristotle
133. “He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.” — Aristotle
134. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle.
135. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. –Aristotle
136. “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.” – Aristotle
137. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
138. Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
139. “We make war that we may live in peace.” – Aristotle
140. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
141. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
142. “The complete man must work, study and wrestle.” — Aristotle
143. Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” ~ Aristotle
144. “The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
145. “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. —Aristotle”
146. “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” – Aristotle
147. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
148. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”- Aristotle
149. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” (Aristotle)
150. “Each man judges well the things he knows.” – Aristotle
151. “Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.”- Aristotle
152. The actuality of thought is life.
153. “Aristotle had it right, but he was missing a number: “We are what we do repeatedly.”
154. Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
155. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”. – Aristotle
156. Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
157. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor. - Aristotle
158. “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” — Aristotle
159. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle
160. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle (but often incorrectly attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
161. “To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.” – Aristotle Onassis
162. “It is easy to perform a good action but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”- Aristotle
163. “Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror, they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.” — Aristotle
164. “Love is the cause of unity in all things.” — Aristotle
165. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”- Aristotle
166. It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
167. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ~ Aristotle
168. “No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”
169. ‘We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.’ – Aristotle
170. Man is by nature a political animal.
171. “Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.” — Aristotle
172. “Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.” — Aristotle
173. "Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”― Aristotle
174. “Men engage in factional conflict through fear, both when they have committed injustice and are frightened of paying the penalty, and when they are about to suffer injustice and wish to forestall it.”
175. “All communication must lead to change.” — Aristotle
176. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
177. “Fortune favors the bold.” — Aristotle
178. “A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.”- Aristotle
179. “Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” — Aristotle
180. “Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”- Aristotle
181. “Change in all things is sweet.” ― Aristotle
182. “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” – Aristotle
183. The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learned from others and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
184. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
185. “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.” — Aristotle
186. “You are what you repeatedly do. Make excellence a habit, not an act that you do once a while." - Aristotle
187. “He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.” — Aristotle
188. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle.
189. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle
190. Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
191. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle
192. “In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.” – Aristotle
193. “Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.” — Aristotle
194. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” — Aristotle
195. “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
196. “Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
197. “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.” ― Aristotle
198. “I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”
199. “Education is the best provision for old age.” — Aristotle
200. “The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.” ~ Aristotle
201. “The physician heals; Nature makes well.” — Aristotle
202. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~Aristotle
203. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” — Aristotle
204. “Quality is not an act; it is a habit.” — Aristotle
205. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
206. “The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.” — Aristotle
207. "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Aristotle
208. “Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us.”
209. “Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.” – Aristotle
210. “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” –attributed to Aristotle
211. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
212. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” — Aristotle
213. “Well begun is half done.” — Aristotle
214. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle
215. “The hardest victory is the victory over self.” — Aristotle
216. “What is many is more incorruptible; like a greater amount of water, the multitude is more incorruptible than the few.”
217. “It’s the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
218. “Nature does nothing in vain.” – Aristotle
219. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” – Aristotle
220. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” — Aristotle
221. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
222. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
223. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”— Aristotle
224. “What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.”
225. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”- Aristotle
226. “Hope is a waking dream.”– Aristotle
227. Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
228. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
229. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.” Aristotle
230. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
231. “It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”- Aristotle
232. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” — Aristotle
233. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ― Aristotle
234. “Without virtue and training, Aristotle observed, “it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably.”
235. Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
236. “Man is the meter of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.” — Aristotle
237. “Wonder implies the desire to learn.” — Aristotle
238. “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” – Aristotle
239. “The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” — Aristotle
240. “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” – Aristotle
241. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
242. “In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.” — Aristotle
243. “The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”- Aristotle
244. “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
245. Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
246. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” – Aristotle
247. “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly, one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.” — Aristotle
248. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
249. “All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”
250. “Each man judges well the things he knows.”- Aristotle
251. “Change in all things is sweet.”- Aristotle
252. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ” — Aristotle
253. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” — Aristotle
254. There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing. Be nothing. Say nothing. —Aristotle
255. “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”- Aristotle
256. “The regime is an arrangement of a city with respect to its offices, particularly the one that has authority over all matters.”
257. “Through discipline comes freedom.”
258. “The basic premise of the democratic sort of regime is freedom.”
259. “Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.” — Aristotle
260. “It is not possible to rule well without having been ruled.”
261. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle, Greek philosopher
262. “Liars, when they speak the truth, are not believed.” – Aristotle
263. “Bad people…are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.”
264. “Philosophy begins with wonder.” — Aristotle
265. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle
266. “Justice, therefore, demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.” — Aristotle
267. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” ~ Aristotle
268. “Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed – easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.” ~ Aristotle
269. “True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise, all you’re having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn’t grow you as a person.” — Aristotle
270. “The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.”
271. “When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.” — Aristotle
272. “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
273. “All human beings, by nature, desire to know.”- Aristotle
274. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”- Aristotle
275. “In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.”- Aristotle
276. “He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.” — Aristotle
277. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
278. “It’s not that he was wrong to have great ambitions. Alexander just never grasped Aristotle’s “golden mean”—that is, the middle ground. Repeatedly, Aristotle speaks of virtue and excellence as points along a spectrum. Courage, for instance, lies between cowardice on one end and recklessness on the other. Generosity, which we all admire, must stop short of either profligacy and parsimony in order to be of any use. Where the line—this golden mean—is can be difficult to tell, but without finding it, we risk dangerous extremes. This is why it is so hard to be excellent, Aristotle wrote. “In each case, it is hard work to find the intermediate; for instance, not everyone, but only one who knows, finds the midpoint in a circle.”
279. “The political good is justice, and this is the common advantage.”
280. ”Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — Aristotle
281. “A constitution is the arrangement of magistrates in a state.”- Aristotle
282. Hope is a waking dream.
283. “For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.”- Aristotle
284. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies” ― Aristotle
285. “Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
286. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle
287. No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
288. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” – Aristotle
289. “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.” — Aristotle
290. “Human beings are curious by nature.” — Aristotle
291. “Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle
292. “Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.” – Aristotle
293. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
294. “Happiness is activity.”- Aristotle
295. “Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.” — Aristotle
296. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. —Aristotle
297. “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.”
298. “There is no genius without some touch of madness.” – Aristotle
299. “95% of everything you do is the result of habit.” — Aristotle
300. “It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.” – Aristotle
301. “It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.” ― Aristotle, The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
302. “Give a man a fish; you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish; you feed him for the rest of his life.” — Aristotle
303. “Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”- Aristotle
304. “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.” – Aristotle
305. You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
306. “Happiness is a state of activity.”
307. Now each man judges well the things he knows, and of these he is a good judge. And so the man who has been educated in a subject is a good judge of that subject, and the man who has received an all-round education is a good judge in general.
308. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” - Aristotle. . . What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” - Aristotle. .
309. “Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.” – Aristotle
310. “It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.” — Aristotle
311. “The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.”- Aristotle
312. “A promise made must be a promise kept.” — Aristotle
313. “For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”
314. To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
315. “Liars, when they speak the truth, are not believed.” ~ Aristotle
316. “A friend to all is a friend to none.”- Aristotle
317. I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
318. “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
319. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires, for the hardest victory is over self.” – Aristotle
320. Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
321. “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
322. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”
323. “Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.” — Aristotle
324. “A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.”
325. “Beauty is the gift of God.” — Aristotle
326. “In all things of nature, there is something of the marvellous.“ – Aristotle
327. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” – Aristotle
328. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.. - Aristotle
329. “We are what we repeatedly do.” – Aristotle
330. "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle
331. “Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.” — Aristotle
332. “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” ~ Aristotle
333. “The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain.” — Aristotle
334. We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”– Aristotle Onassis
335. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”― Aristotle
336. “A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.” ~ Aristotle
337. After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.” – Aristotle Onassis
338. “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
339. Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle
340. “Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.” — Aristotle
341. “Aristotle said: ‘We are what we repeatedly do.’ He was referring to character - the values and habits of our daily behavior that reveal who and what we are.” - John Wooden
342. “Hope is the dream of a waking man.”
343. “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
344. “Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.”
345. “Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.” — Aristotle
346. If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” Aristotle Onassis
347. “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
348. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
349. “Friendship is essentially a partnership.”- Aristotle
350. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” – Aristotle, Philosopher
351. “It is impossible for the whole to be happy unless all, or most or some, of its parts possess happiness.”
352. “We make war that we may live in peace.” — Aristotle
353. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
354. “Wit is educated insolence.” – Aristotle
355. “It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.” – Aristotle
356. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
357. “Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.”
358. If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. —Aristotle
359. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” ~ Aristotle
360. “Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.”- Aristotle
361. “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” — Aristotle
362. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Aristotle
363. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” - Aristotle
364. “All men by nature desire knowledge.” — Aristotle
365. Through discipline comes freedom.
366. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
367. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle
368. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ―Aristotle
369. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. -Aristotle
370. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life: the whole aim and end of human existence.” – Aristotle
371. “Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”- Aristotle
372. “Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”- Aristotle
373. “He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”- Aristotle
374. “Man is by nature a political animal.”- Aristotle
375. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” —Aristotle
376. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. —Aristotle
377. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
378. “The actuality of thought is life.” – Aristotle
379. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”- Aristotle
380. “For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” – Aristotle
381. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act. But a habit.” — Aristotle
382. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
383. “Hope is a waking dream.”
384. “To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” — Aristotle
385. “There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing. Be nothing. Say nothing.” —Aristotle
386. “The quality of life is determined by its activities.” — Aristotle
387. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~ Aristotle
388. “Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”- Aristotle
389. Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
390. “Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.”
391. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.”
392. Aristotle – “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
393. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” — Aristotle
394. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
395. “Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” ~ Aristotle
396. Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
397. To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
398. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” — Aristotle
399. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” – Aristotle
400. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim, and end of human existence.” — Aristotle
401. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
402. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
403. “The actuality of thought is life.”- Aristotle
404. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” said Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle.
405. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
406. “Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.” – Aristotle
407. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle
408. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
409. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle
410. “In all things of nature there is something marvelous.”
411. “Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
412. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
413. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -Aristotle
414. “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
415. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” —Aristotle
416. “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.” — Aristotle
417. “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
418. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
419. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.” – Aristotle
420. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” — Aristotle
421. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” – Aristotle
422. “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.”
423. A Friend Is One Soul Abiding In Two Bodies. Aristotle
424. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
425. Happiness depends upon ourselves.
426. “I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.” — Aristotle
427. “Happiness is the highest good.” — Aristotle
428. Anyone can be angry–that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way–that is not easy. -Aristotle
429. “Well begun is half done.”
430. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” ~ Aristotle.
431. “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle
432. “The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.” — Aristotle
433. “All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.” — Aristotle
434. “Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.”
435. “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.” — Aristotle
436. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
437. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ”— Aristotle
438. “The secret to humor is surprise.”
439. "First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end” – Aristotle
440. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” — Aristotle
441. To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter.” – Aristotle
442. “Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.”- Aristotle
443. “Aristotle wrote, “Wisdom is an equal combination of experience plus reflection.”
444. “Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.” – Aristotle
445. “Whoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” – Aristotle
446. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” — Aristotle, Greek philosopher
447. “To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.” — Aristotle
448. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”― Aristotle
449. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. —Aristotle
450. “It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.”
451. You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
452. “Law is order, and good law is good order.” — Aristotle
453. “It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possible only in one way.”- Aristotle
454. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. —Aristotle
455. Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
456. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”- Aristotle
457. “Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”- Aristotle
458. “The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.”
459. “What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.” — Aristotle
460. He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. - Author: Aristotle.
461. “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” — Aristotle
462. “Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.” – Aristotle
463. “First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” — Aristotle
464. “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” —Aristotle
465. “A friend is a second self." — Aristotle
466. “The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” Aristotle.
467. “The law is reason, free from passion.” – Aristotle
468. "All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.” — Aristotle
469. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle
470. “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
471. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” —Aristotle
472. “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.” — Aristotle
473. “The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.” – Aristotle
474. “Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.” — Aristotle
475. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” — Aristotle, father of Western philosophy
476. “Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.” — Aristotle
477. “Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.” ― Aristotle
478. “Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.” – Aristotle
479. “In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.” – Aristotle
480. “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” ― Aristotle
481. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
482. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
483. “Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.” — Aristotle
484. At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
485. “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
486. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle, philosopher
487. “In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.” — Aristotle
488. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” —Aristotle, father of Western philosophy
489. It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
490. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”―Aristotle
491. “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
492. “Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror, they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.”- Aristotle
493. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
494. “Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.”
495. We cannot learn without pain.
496. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle
497. “In fact, Aristotle didn't have a high opinion of Athenian democracy, which had very few safeguards against demagoguery or majoritarianism. A much better form of government, he thought, was what he called a 'politeia,' or a 'constitutional government.' (Roman writers translated 'politeia' as 'affairs of the state,' or 'res publica,' which gave us our word 'republic.') In this kind of society, people govern themselves through deliberations and elections, but they do so in a framework constrained by written constitutions and protections of individual rights.
498. “Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”- Aristotle
499. “Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal.” — Aristotle
500. The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
501. “Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.” — Aristotle
502. “At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.”- Aristotle
503. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.” — Aristotle
504. Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. – Aristotle
505. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."— Aristotle
506. “The law is reason, free from passion.”
507. "It’s during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light” – Aristotle
508. “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” — Aristotle
509. “It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.” – Aristotle
510. Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
511. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
512. “My Best Friend Is The Man Who In Wishing Me Well Wishes It For My Sake.” — Aristotle
513. “No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.”
514. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”- Aristotle
515. “Whatever creates or increases happiness or some part of happiness, we ought to do; whatever destroys or hampers happiness, or gives rise to its opposite, we ought not to do.” – Aristotle
516. “The Law is Reason free from Passion.”
517. "It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” ― Aristotle
518. “To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” – Aristotle Onassis
519. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle
520. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
521. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” Aristotle
522. “Let us presuppose this much, that the best way of life both separately for each individual and in common for cities is that accompanied by virtue—virtue that is equipped to such an extent as to allow them to take part in actions that accord with virtue.”
523. “For where the laws do not rule there is no regime.”
524. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle
525. “Man is by nature a political animal.” — Aristotle
526. “Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.”
527. “Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”- Aristotle
528. “Most people would rather give than get affection.”- Aristotle
529. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.” – Aristotle
530. “Aristotle once said, “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.”
531. “No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases, it strikes the eye.”- Aristotle
532. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle
533. “Hope is a waking dream.”- Aristotle
534. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”- Aristotle
535. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”- Aristotle
536. Aristotle loves the marvelous nature.
537. “The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries but to forget them.” — Aristotle
538. “Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”
539. “At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein, you will discover your purpose.” — Aristotle
540. “Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed.” — Aristotle
541. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all ~ Aristotle
542. Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
543. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
544. “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” – Aristotle
545. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” –Aristotle
546. “The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
547. Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
548. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” Aristotle
549. Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
550. The secret to humor is surprise.
551. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle
552. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
553. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." — Aristotle
554. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle
555. “The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
556. “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle.
557. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
558. “The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.” — Aristotle
559. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” – Aristotle
560. “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” – Aristotle
561. “For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.” – Aristotle
562. “To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”
563. “Fortune favours the bold.”
564. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
565. “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”- Aristotle
566. “Selfishness shows a lack of ability to love any other object or creature but one’s self.” – Aristotle
567. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
568. “Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
569. “A friend to all is a friend to none.”—Aristotle
570. “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.” — Aristotle
571. The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
572. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
573. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
574. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
575. “Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”- Aristotle
576. A friend to all is a friend to none.
577. For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
578. Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
579. “Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotism.”- Aristotle
580. “Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.”- Aristotle
581. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
582. We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
583. It is possible to fail in many ways. while to succeed is possible only in one way.
584. “No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”- Aristotle
585. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
586. “When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, “As much as the living are to the dead.” – Diogenes Laertius
587. “Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.”- Aristotle
588. “Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
589. Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” – Aristotle
590. “Hope is the dream of a waking man.”– Aristotle
591. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
592. “The complete man must work, study and wrestle.”
593. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
594. Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
595. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — AristotleGETTY IMAGES, RD.COM
596. “What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” — Aristotle
597. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. ―Aristotle
598. “Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.” – Aristotle
599. “Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach.”- Aristotle
600. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle
601. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle
602. “All proofs rest on premises.” – Aristotle
603. “In his final sermon before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King, Jr., said, ‘Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the Second Theory of Thermodynamics and Physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
604. “Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.” — Aristotle
605. “Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
606. “There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
607. “Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies.”- Aristotle
608. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” – Aristotle
609. “We work to earn our leisure.” — Aristotle
610. Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
611. “The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.” — Aristotle
612. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.” — Aristotle
613. “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
614. “The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god…” — Aristotle
615. “Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”- Aristotle
616. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”– Aristotle
617. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle
618. “What is at issue then?”—said I—”Is it possible for one man to form an accurate judgment about another’s character? Or are we all such self-deceivers that none of us can presume to know anything about himself or any other human being? – Aristotle
619. “Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.” – Aristotle
620. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle
621. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
622. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
623. “It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.” — Aristotle
624. “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” — Aristotle
625. “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Aristotle
626. “Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
627. “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” — Aristotle
628. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” Aristotle
629. Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
630. “As Aristotle said, ‘Excellence is a habit.’” – Criss Jami
631. The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
632. “But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.”
633. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but the consciousness that we deserve them.”
634. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ― Aristotle
635. Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
636. “It’s during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light” – Aristotle
637. “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
638. A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. -Aristotle
639. "A friend to all is a friend to none.” ― Aristotle
640. “It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences—makes them, as the poets tell us, ‘charm the crowd’s ears more finely.’ Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.” ― Aristotle, The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
641. “A person’s life persuades better than his word.” — Aristotle
642. “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”- Aristotle
643. “The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
644. “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
645. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.”
646. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
647. “Through discipline comes freedom.” — Aristotle
648. Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
649. Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
650. “Those who know, do. Those that understand teach.” — Aristotle
651. “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” — Aristotle
652. “For as man is the best of all animals when he has reached his full development, so he is worst of all when divorced from law and justice.”
653. I am having an out of money experience. ~Author Unknown 40. If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis 41. Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the
654. “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”- Aristotle
655. “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”
656. “We are what we repeatedly do.”- Aristotle
657. Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and that is not easy.
658. We make war that we may live in peace.
659. “The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain.”- Aristotle
660. 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.” – Aristotle
661. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.“― Aristotle
662. “A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle
663. “Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.” — Aristotle
664. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. - Aristotle
665. “Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.”- Aristotle
666. “We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.” — Aristotle
667. Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotism.
668. “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
669. ‘All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.’ – Aristotle
670. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”- Aristotle
671. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
672. There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
673. The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
674. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
675. A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government..
676. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work”. – Aristotle
677. Wit is educated insolence.
678. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle
679. “He who can be and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.”
680. The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” Aristotle
681. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.” – Aristotle
682. “A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”― Aristotle
683. “Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.” — Aristotle
684. “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”
685. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle
686. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle
687. “We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.” — Aristotle
688. “Hope is a waking dream.” —Aristotle.
689. “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
690. “For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.”- Aristotle
691. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” — Aristotle
692. To love someone is to identify with them.
693. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
694. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”- Aristotle
695. “The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.” – Aristotle
696. “Happiness is a state of activity.” — Aristotle
697. “We become brave by doing brave acts.” — Aristotle
698. “Wit is educated insolence.” — Aristotle
699. “To perceive is to suffer.” — Aristotle
700. This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
701. “Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”- Aristotle
702. “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” – Aristotle
703. “One ought not even consider that a particular citizen belongs to himself, but rather that all belong to the city; for each is part of the city.”
704. “Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas. (Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.)”
705. “The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.” — Aristotle
706. “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”- Aristotle
707. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.” — Aristotle
708. “Change in all things is sweet.” -Aristotle
709. “Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.”
710. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.”- Aristotle
711. “I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”- Aristotle
712. “Aristotle defined the virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.”
713. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”—Aristotle
714. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — Aristotle
715. “There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing. Be nothing. Say nothing.” - Aristotle
716. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
717. One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. – Aristotle
718. “The Law is Reason Free from Passion.” — Aristotle
719. “Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle
720. The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
721. “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” — Aristotle
722. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes; chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
723. “Education is an ornament in prosperity & a refuge in adversity.” – Aristotle
724. “The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life — knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.” Aristotle
725. “Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”- Aristotle
726. “Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.”- Aristotle
727. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
728. “All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.” – Aristotle
729. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.. . . . . Aristotle
730. “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” — Aristotle
731. “The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.” – Aristotle
732. Friendship is essentially a partnership.
733. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”—Aristotle
734. Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.
735. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle
736. “The least deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
737. “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
738. “The quality of life is determined by its activities.” – Aristotle
739. “Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.”
740. “Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
741. “The whole is more than the sum of its parts.” – Aristotle
742. “The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
743. “The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” – Aristotle
744. “plans, as of yet there has been no theory or process for true strategy creation. We believe the four-step process proposed here goes a long way to correct this situation. By being built around a picture, it addresses many of managers’ discontents with existing strategic planning and yields much better results. As Aristotle pointed out, “The soul never thinks without an image.”
745. “You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”- Aristotle
746. “The soul is divided into two parts, of which the one has reason itself, while the other does not have it in itself, but is capable of obeying reason.”
747. “We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.” – Aristotle
748. “All men by nature desire to know.” – Aristotle
749. “To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.” — Aristotle
750. “There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequal.” — Aristotle
751. “To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
752. “My best friend is the man who, in wishing me well, wishes it for my sake.”- Aristotle
753. “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
754. “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
755. 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.
756. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
757. “You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
758. “It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.” —Aristotle
759. “Haste in every business brings failures.”
760. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
761. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
762. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
763. “Life is a gift of nature but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.” – Aristotle
764. The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
765. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
766. “There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip.” — Aristotle
767. “Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.” — Aristotle
768. “Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.” – Aristotle
769. “A friend to all is a friend to none.” ― Aristotle
770. “He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
771. Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
772. “Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” – Aristotle
773. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ― Aristotle
774. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
775. “We can’t learn without pain.” — Aristotle
776. “Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.” – Aristotle
777. “A friend to all is a friend to none.”
778. “In a democracy the poor will have more than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
779. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. —Aristotle
780. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” — Aristotle Onassis
781. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle
782. The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
783. “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” ― Aristotle
784. “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” Aristotle
785. “The soul never thinks without a picture.” — Aristotle
786. “Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one’s life in order to amuse oneself” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
787. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
788. “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” Aristotle
789. “If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.” — Aristotle
790. “The greatest crimes are caused by excess and not by necessity.” - Aristotle
791. “Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.” — Aristotle
792. “Wit is educated insolence.” – Aristotle
793. “The political good is justice, and this is the common advantage.”
794. “He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”- Aristotle
795. “No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”
796. “Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.” – Aristotle
797. “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” –attributed to Aristotle
798. “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
799. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle
800. Aristotle loves the marvelous nature.
