Aristotle Quotes

• Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

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  Motivational, Wise, Intelligent

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  Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

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  Believe, Truth Is, Accepting

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• The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

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  Logical, Shoreline, Knows

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• The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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  Journey, Important Relationships, Knowing

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• Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

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  Meaningful, Goal, Life Is

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• Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

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  Being Strong, Justice, Pay

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  It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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  Character, Evil, Choices

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

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  Missing, Problem, Lows

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• He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

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  Leadership, Dancing, Followers

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• Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

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  Firsts, Virtue

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  Criticism is something we can avoid easily
  by saying nothing, doing nothing,
  and being nothing.

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  Inspirational, Relationship, Failure

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• To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

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  Learning, Snow, Appreciate

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• A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

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  Hearing, Fool, Nonsense

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• At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

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  Over You, Needs, Purpose

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• Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

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  Flower, Humility, Humble

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• 95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

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  Habit, Results

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• Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

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  Greatness, Simplicity, Spirit

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

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• We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

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  Self, Excellence, Events

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• Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

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  Soul, Quality, Function

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• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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  Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism

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• Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

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  Doubt

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• Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

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  War, Mean, Men

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• The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

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  Wise, Men, Fool

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• Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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  Character, May, Lost

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