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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Well done is better than well said.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Believe in yourself.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
I'll be back.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
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.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Be the best that you can be.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
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.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
No wire hangers, ever !
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Change comes from within.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.