“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Author
Aristotle
101 quotes
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
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“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.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
“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.”
“Hope is a waking dream.”
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“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.”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
“Change in all things is sweet.”
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
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“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”