Aristotle Quotes

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
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• I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • Book
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• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Important
  • Parents

• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Life
  • Experience
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• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • You
  • Human

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Couple

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Book
  • Never

• I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

  

  Usher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rose

• No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Rich

• I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Life
  • Death
  • Marriage

• Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • May
  • Think

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Life
  • Long
  • Children

• I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

  

  Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Alone
  • Identity

• You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Car
  • Cliffs
  • Screenplays

• Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Virtue