Top 1292 Quotes & Sayings by Aristotle - Page 4

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

Authority is no source for Truth.

The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

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.

Character is revealed through action.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

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.

Love well, be loved and do something of value.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

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.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

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.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

We can't learn without pain.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

You are what you do repeatedly.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

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.

You are what you repeatedly do

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

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.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.