Aristotle on Endurance Quotes

"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."

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

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly."

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

"The person who stands his ground against things that are painful and does not lose his head is a man of endurance."

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

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

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

"Change in all things is sweet."

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

"The soul never thinks without a picture."

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient."

"Nature does nothing in vain."

"No one feels fear who thinks that nothing can happen to him."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends."

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

"Through discipline comes freedom."

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."

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

"The brave man is as unperturbed as a man can be; he will fear such things indeed, but he will stand his ground against them as he ought."

"The more we fear, the more we are inclined to think."

"To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill."

"One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

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

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."