Category Quotations

Aristotle says:  “If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”

Aristotle says:  “I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”

Aristotle says:  “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”

Aristotle says:  “He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.”

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

Aristotle says:  “Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.”

Aristotle says:  “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 says:  “Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.”

Aristotle says:  “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 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,…