Quotes for life - We have 1 book review related to Aristotle. - Read the works of Aristotle online at The Literature Page A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. Aristotle A friend is a second self. Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Aristotle - More quotations on: [Actions] All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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Quotes for life
- We have 1 book review related to Aristotle.
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Aristotle
A friend is a second self.
Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle
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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
Aristotle
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle
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If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
Aristotle
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Aristotle
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle
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Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
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One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle
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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle
To perceive is to suffer.
Aristotle
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics'
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
Evil brings men together.
Aristotle, (attributed)
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- We have 2 book reviews related to Albert Einstein.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
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I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Albert Einstein
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
- We have 2 book reviews related to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man is hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person, whatever he says has an enhanced value.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every revolution was thought first in one man's mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arnold Bennett
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
Arnold Palmer (1929 - )
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian
If I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle.
David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
Hasidic Saying
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, November 2009
Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.
Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Philip Adams
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.
Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.
Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker, 2009
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren (1934 - )
You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.
Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.
Tina Fey, Vogue Interview, 2010
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), Orley Farm, chapter 49, 1950
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.
Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been
led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.
Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.
Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.
Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan (1941 - )
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957), Where the Blue Begins,1922
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough (1933 - )
Envy was just the tax you paid on success.
David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockefeller (1915 - )
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957
When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.
Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
