It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
Well begun is half done.
Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Hope is a waking dream.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
Happiness is a state of activity.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Wit is educated insolence.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of out own existence.