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69 Aristotle Quotes

1. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

2. “Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.” – Aristotle

3. “Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.” – Aristotle

4. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

5. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle

6. “There is no great genius without some touch of madness.” – Aristotle

7. “My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” – Aristotle

8. “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” – Aristotle

9. “The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” – Aristotle

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

11. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

12. “Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.” – Aristotle

13. “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.” – Aristotle

14. “A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle

15. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.” – Aristotle

16. “Change in all things is sweet.” – Aristotle

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

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

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

20. “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

21. “He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.” – Aristotle

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

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

24. “Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.” – Aristotle

25. “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.” – Aristotle

26. “Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.” – Aristotle

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

28. “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

29. “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

30. “Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.” – Aristotle

31. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle

32. “The whole is more than the sum of its parts.” – Aristotle

33. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

34. “Well begun is half done.” – Aristotle

35. “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.” – Aristotle

36. “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.” – Aristotle

37. “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” – Aristotle

38. “Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.” – Aristotle

39. “No one loves the man whom he fears.” – Aristotle

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

41. “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

42. “It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.” – Aristotle

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

44. “One thing alone not even God can do, To make undone whatever hath been done.” – Aristotle

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

46. “Nature does nothing uselessly.” – Aristotle

47. “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” – Aristotle

48. “The soul never thinks without a picture. Hope is the dream of a waking man.” – Aristotle

49. “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

50. “Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.” – Aristotle

51. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life: the whole aim and end of human existence.” – Aristotle

52. “Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.” – Aristotle

53. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

54. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle

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

56. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” – Aristotle

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

58. “No happy man can become miserable, for he will never do acts that are hateful and mean.” – Aristotle

59. “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

60. “It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.” – Aristotle

61. “The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.” – Aristotle

62. “Through discipline comes freedom.” – Aristotle

63. “To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.” – Aristotle

64. “We cannot learn without pain.” – Aristotle

65. “Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle

66. “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.” – Aristotle

67. “Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.” – Aristotle

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

69. “All men by nature desire to know.” – Aristotle

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