Aristotle on Patience Quotes

"Well begun is half done."

"All men by nature desire to know."

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

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

"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."

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

"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure many great misfortunes, not through insensibility to pain, but through nobility and greatness of soul."

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

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

"Through discipline comes freedom."

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

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

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

"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."

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

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

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient."

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

"One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."

"Change in all things is sweet."

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

"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution."

"The soul never thinks without a picture."

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

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

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

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."

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

"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."