Aristotle on Discipline Quotes

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient, and peace to those who govern themselves."

"A man who is not a master of himself can never be a master of others."

"Through discipline comes freedom."

"To be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

"Endurance consists in not being defeated, whereas continence consists in conquering."

"Men should be trained in the arts of war for the sake of peace."

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."

"Fear makes men inclined to deliberation."

"We must be neither cowardly nor rash but brave."

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."

"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."

"To be angry is easy, but to be angry in the right way... that is not easy."

"The man who exceeds in fear is a coward; for he fears both what he ought not and as he ought not."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"To be angry is easy; but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time is not within everyone's power."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."

"For it is the nature of the many to be amenable to fear but not to a sense of honor, and to abstain from evil not because of its baseness but because of the penalties."

"He who is to be a good ruler must first have been ruled."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way."

"It is more difficult to endure pain than to abstain from pleasure."

"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."

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

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"Deliberation is about things that are in our power and can be done."