“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Aristotle
“Through discipline comes freedom.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“Hope is a waking dream.”
“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
“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.”
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.”
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.”
“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
“Fortune favours the bold.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
“Well begun is half done.”
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
“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.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
“Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.”
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.”
“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.”
“The complete man must work, study and wrestle.”
“What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.”
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
“The Law is Reason free from Passion.”
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
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