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Best Aristotle Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

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

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.”

“The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train noble natures not to desire more, and mean ones to fear less.”

“The good of man is the active exercise of his soul’s faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue.”

“Man is by nature a political animal.”

“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“No one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all the other goods.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“The hardest victory is over self.”

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“We must not listen to those who advise us to think as mortal beings, but must live as if immortal.”

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

“Hope is a waking dream.”

“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion.”

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

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”

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The people who are the most alive, driven, and fulfilled are those that seek to lead by a life of contribution and service to something greater than themselves.

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

"For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms... he may escape death."

"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

We know what we should and shouldn't put in our mouths, but in those times that pull on our souls, we revert to what's emotionally comfortable.

Joy in the Thing people say; but in reality it is joy in itself by means of the thing."

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

“Nobody is responsible for his actions, nobody for his nature; to judge is identical with being unjust.”

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.”

I am so blessed. I get to do what I like to do with people that I love. That is happiness.

Life is always happening for you, not to you. Appreciate that gift, and you are wealthy, now and forever.