Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Sunday, April 5, 2015 – Aristotle
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Sunday, April 5, 2015 – Aristotle
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
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“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
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“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
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“No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.”
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“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
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“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
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“Well begun is half done.”
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“Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.”
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‘Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or sped money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.”
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“Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.”
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“Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.”
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“A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange…. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”
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“The basis of a democratic state is liberty.”
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“With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.”
Wikipedia: Aristotle
