Aristotle Quotes

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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• Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Virtues
  • Himself
  • Cardinal

• Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Friend
  • Virtues
  • Knew

• The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Persons

• Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Management
  • Useful

• A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Whole
  • Useful
  • Lemon

• The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Always
  • Principle
  • Useful

• It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Years
  • Compare
  • Useful

• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Persons

• I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Energy

• The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Power
  • Persons

• Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Needs
  • Persons

• I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Movie
  • Reason
  • Magic

• I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Happy
  • Persons
  • Forte

• It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Alone

• I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • World
  • Persons
  • Distance

• The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Running
  • Persons
  • Surveillance

• If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Looks
  • Persons
  • Ifs

• When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects.

  

  Confucius
  • Teacher
  • Persons
  • Aspects

• You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Faults
  • Virtues
  • Don't Love

• A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Way
  • Persons
  • Honest

• Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Social
  • Love Is
  • Instrument

• If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

  

  Michael Nutter
  • Should
  • Stores
  • Adorable

• The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

  

  Aristotle
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