Inspirational quotes
Aristotle
Inspirational Quotes › By Teacher › Aristotle
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.
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"For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases or preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues...
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."~ Aristotle Quotes from The Nicomachean Ethics
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence (aka Areté) then, is not an act, but a habit.
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We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.
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We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs...
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

