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Best Aristotle Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Hope is a waking dream.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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"You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant."

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.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

For an employee to take responsibility, they must first be given it.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

"You've got to keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no."

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

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

Remember that all is opinion.

Most people know very little about true justice and truth.