Aristotle
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Happiness is a state of activity.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
There is no substitute for hard work.
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Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
The truth is more important than the facts.
There is time for everything.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Success is the child of audacity.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Show me the money !
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
You had me at hello.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Happiness is a state of activity.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.