Aristotle on Strength Quotes

"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."

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

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

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

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

"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead."

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

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

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

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

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."

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

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

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

"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."

"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."

"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."

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

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

"Fortitude is the mean between fear and rashness."