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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The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
The best things in life are not things.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
If they move, kill ' em.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Live with passion.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
What hump ?
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Our love is here to stay.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Success is predictable.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
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.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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.
Do it now !
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
It's showtime !