Aristotle Quotes

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

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• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Love

• I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • School
  • War
  • High

• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
  • Christian
  • Adventure

• Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Help
  • Easy

• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Perfect
  • Vision
  • Year

• Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Music
  • Process
  • Loved

• We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Race

• There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Money
  • Charity

• If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Why
  • Interesting

• Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

  

  David Hume
  • Small
  • Sea
  • Ambition

• I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Never
  • Idea
  • Celebrity

• I don't want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one that could pass for a weave.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Want
  • Looks
  • Wigs

• Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

  

  A.J. Cronin
  • Reason
  • Brother

• The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Important
  • Together
  • Single

• Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Value
  • Scripture

• Cuban artists had, for a while, a privileged position within Cuba that is probably going to become slightly less restricted to them. I think they'll continue to join the international art world, so those people who are extremely successful will become even more so and those who are struggling will continue to struggle.

  

  Rachael Price
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• To earn more, you must learn more.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Success
  • Positive

• There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

  

  Confucius
  • Way
  • Master
  • Consists

• Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Working
  • Helpful
  • Stopped

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Passion

• Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Genius
  • Virtue
  • Musicians

• Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Excess
  • Deficiency