Category Quotations

Aristotle says:  “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise

Aristotle says:  “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,…

Aristotle says:  “Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.”

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

Aristotle says:  “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…

Aristotle says:  “And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.”

Aristotle says:  “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”

Aristotle says:  “All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.”

Aristotle says:  “All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world”

Aristotle says:  “A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend’s existence…makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.”