Aristotle Quotes

“It concerns us to know the purpose we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.”

“Where talent and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“The greatest victory is the victory over oneself.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”

“Through discipline comes freedom.”

“We are what we frequently do.”

“We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”

“The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.”

“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.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“Happiness is a state of activity.”

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.”

“No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.”

“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”

“No one loves the man whom he fears.”

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.”

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

“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.”

“The soul never thinks without a picture.”

“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.”

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

“Well begun is half done.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“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.”

“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”

“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”

“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”

“If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”