Inspirational Quotations by Aristotle

  • We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and
    against the right persons and also in the right manner
    at the right moment and for the right length of time.
    From Issue 2
  • Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the
    right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right
    purpose, and in the right way -- that is not easy.
    Topic: Anger
    From Issue 6
  • The roots of education are bitter,
    but the fruit is sweet.
    Topic: Education
    From Issue 13
  • Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
    From Issue 15
  • We are what we repeatedly do.
    Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
    From Issue 43
  • Ability is what you're capable of doing.
    Motivation determines what you do.
    I count him braver who overcomes his
    desires than him who conquers his enemies;
    the hardest victory is over self.
    From Issue 44
  • The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears
    with composure one heavy mischance after another,
    not because he does not feel them,
    but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
    From Issue 124
  • Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
    From Issue 148
  • It is possible to fail in many ways...
    while to succeed is possible only in one way.
    From Issue 187
  • Wit is educated insolence.
    From Issue 233
  • It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
    From Issue 235
  • The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
    From Issue 270
  • Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
    We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
    but rather we have those because we have acted rightly.
    We are what we repeatedly do.
    Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
    From Issue 283
  • The soul never thinks without a mental picture.
    From Issue 307

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