Greek Quotes - Page 4

• A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Coaching, Possibility

  Poetics ch. 24, 1460a

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• We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

  Archilochus

  Wisdom, Fall, Warrior

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• No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

  Protagoras

  Confidence, Wisdom, Believe

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• Wisdom begins in wonder.

  Socrates

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Being Yourself

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• Be as you wish to seem.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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• I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

  Hesiod

  Wise, Patience, Hope

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• Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

  Plato

  Success, Failure, Men

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• I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

  Archilochus

  Art, Hurt, Warrior

  "Quotations for Martial Artists : Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior". Book edited by John D. Moore, 2003.

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• You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.

  Melina Mercouri

  Philosophy, Mean, Patriotic

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• To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Honor

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• We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspiration, Achieve, Talkers

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• According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

  Plato

  Two, Half, Legs

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• The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

  Aristotle

  Peace, Philosophical, Logical Reasoning

  James McLean Watson, Aristotle (1909). “Aristotle's criticisms of Plato”

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  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Positive, Family

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

  Plato

  Life And Death, Departure, God Knows

  Plato “Writings of Plato”, Lulu.com

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• Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

  Socrates

  Life, Friendship, Giving

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

  Plato

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

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• A painting is more than the sum of its parts

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Logical Reasoning, Mathematical Logic, Painting

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mathematical Logic, Fists, Apprenticeship

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.401, Anchor

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• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Education, Teacher

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• We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.” -Mrs. Karafilis

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Daughter, Suicide, Light

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• Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

  Sophocles

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 685,

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• The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

  Epicurus

  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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• There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.

  Jacque Fresco

  Problem, Polish, Humans

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