Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2023 Update)

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

— Aristotle

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2. “Through discipline comes freedom.”

— Aristotle

3. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

— Aristotle

4. “Hope is a waking dream.”

— Aristotle

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5. “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”

— Aristotle

6. “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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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9. “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

14. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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16. “Fortune favours the bold.”

— Aristotle

17. “Happiness is a state of activity.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

21. “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

— Aristotle

22. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

— Aristotle

23. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

— Aristotle

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24. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

26. “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

— Aristotle

27. “Well begun is half done.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

30. “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

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31. “Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.”

— Aristotle

32. “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

34. “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”

— Aristotle

35. “A friend to all is a friend to none.”

— Aristotle

36. “Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

38. “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

— Aristotle

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39. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

42. “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

43. “The complete man must work, study and wrestle.”

— Aristotle

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44. “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

45. “To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

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47. “The Law is Reason free from Passion.”

— Aristotle

48. “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

— Aristotle

49. “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”

— Aristotle

50. “Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”

— Aristotle