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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
May the Force be with you.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Success is never wondering what if.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Our intentions create our reality.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Rosebud.
Our love is here to stay.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
God doesn't make junk.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Never spend your money before you have it.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Every human heart is human.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.