He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Topics: Leadership, True Leader, Commanders, Leadership By Great Leaders, Leadership In Education

Topics: Life, Success, Time, Life Philosophy, Moral Excellence

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Topics: Friendship, Best Friend, Men, Special Friend, Fake Friends

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Topics: Truth, Science, Thinking, Scientific Truth

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Education, Keep An Open Mind
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Topics: Life, Death, Education, Moral Excellence, Philosophy Of Education
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Self, Great Minds, Insanity And Genius
Topics: Inspirational, Life, Success, Personal Journey, Bravery And Courage
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Topics: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Topics: Philosophical, Tyrants, People, Oligarchy, Right To Bear Arms
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Topics: Inspiration, Parent, Poverty, Help The Poor, Causes Of Poverty
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Topics: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Spiritual Happiness, Just Be Happy
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
Topics: Friendship, Feelings, Friendly
Topics: Motivational, Wise, Destiny, Choose Wisely, Wise Choices
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Topics: Pain, Fear, Philosophical, Fear Of Love, Worry And Fear
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Topics: Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends, New Friendship, Eternal Friendship
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Topics: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Inspirational Courage, Leadership Courage
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Topics: Friendship, Friends, Real Friends, Fake Friends, Cute Friendship
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
Topics: Long, Impossible, Argument
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Topics: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Songs And Friendship
Topics: Beauty, Beautiful, Gratitude, Insensibility, Suffering And Pain
We make war that we may live in peace.
Topics: Strength, Veterans Day, Peace, War Veteran, Fighting Battles
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Topics: Integrity, Destiny, Men, Leadership Integrity, Moral Ethics
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
Topics: Inspirational, Business, Work, Wake Up Call
Topics: Philosophical, Soul, Body
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Topics: Freedom, Fear, Athlete, Fear None, Absolute Freedom
Topics: Principles, Firsts, Mathematics, Saturated
Topics: Art, Requirements, Impossible, Improbable
Topics: Wise, Wisdom, Men, Life Crisis, Nicomachean Ethics
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Topics: Graduation, Education, Sweet, Inspirational Education, Memorable Graduation
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Topics: Wise, Pain, Philosophical, Pain And Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Topics: Inspirational, Happiness, Lying, Mind Opening, Daily Discipline
Topics: Workout, Live Life, Philosophical, Sharing Knowledge
Topics: Self, Consciousness, Conscious
Topics: Animal, Hunting, Hunting And Fishing
Topics: Leadership, Education, Teacher, Teachers And Teaching, Art Of Living
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Topics: Inspirational, Business, Self Esteem, Discovering Yourself, Inner Growth
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Topics: Inspirational, Criticism, Doing Nothing, Failure In Life, Lift You Up
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Topics: Life, Nature, Philosophical, Beautiful Nature, Marvelous Things
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Topics: Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism, Equality For All, Wealth Inequality
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Topics: Witty, Equality, Men, Equality For All
Topics: Tyrants, People, Tasks, Daily Tasks
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Topics: Animal, Men, Law, Law And Justice, Ancient Greek Philosophers
Topics: Faith, Education, Art, Classical Education, Education For All
Topics: Marriage, Husband, Men, Lasting Marriage
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Topics: Friendship, Relationship, True Friend, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational Friendship
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Topics: Funny, Creativity, Ideas, Genius And Madness
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
Topics: Life, Helping Others, Essence, Meaning Life, Volunteerism
Topics: Heart, Soul, Brain, Brain Science, Seats
The quality of life is determined by its activities.
Topics: Life, Quality, Determined, Quality Of Life
The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.
Topics: Way, Achieve, Express Yourself, True Success
Topics: Liberty, Needs, Beast, Nicomachean Ethics
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
Topics: Praise, Standards, Higher Standards
Topics: Inspiration, Character, Emotion
Topics: Character, Giving, Quality, Human Happiness
Topics: Writing, Eye, Genius, Resemblance
Topics: Lonely, War, Play, Playing Chess
Topics: Friendship, People, Justice, Nicomachean Ethics
Topics: Disputes, Term, Paragraph, Could Have Been
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
Topics: Insanity, Anarchy, Sober, Mountaineering, Mountain Climbers
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
Topics: Mean, Two, Goodness, Two Meaning
Topics: Happy Life, Effort, Amusement
source: - Diane von Furstenberg (2015). “The Woman I Wanted to Be”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
Topics: Journey, Discovery, Self, Important Relationships
Topics: Sake, Wealth, Making Money, Nicomachean Ethics
Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue
Topics: Soul, Virtue, Virtue And Happiness, Nicomachean Ethics
Topics: Character, Self, Support, Moral Character, Good Moral
Topics: War, Mean, Men, Decisive Action
If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.
Topics: Reason, Right Time, Persons
Topics: Science, Engineering, Order, Mathematical Beauty, Symmetry
Topics: Funny, Girlfriend, Purpose
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Topics: Love, Life, Positive, Say I Love You, Effortless
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Topics: Freedom, Philosophical, Men, Democracy Freedom, Voting And Democracy
Topics: Nature, Philosophical, Passion, Daily Habits, Moral Excellence
Topics: Jealousy, Men, Envy, Jealous And Envy, Jealous Love
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Topics: Philosophical, Insanity, Soul, Insanity And Sanity, Exemption
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Topics: Inspirational, Philosophical, Differences, Good Habits, Teenage Life
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Job Satisfaction, Inspirational Hard Work
Topics: Courage, Peace, Bravery, Moral Excellence, Moral Virtues
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Topics: Life, Teacher, Teaching, Good Teacher, Good Teaching
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Topics: Philosophical, Character, Mean
Topics: Philosophical, History, Poetry
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Topics: Inspirational, Wisdom, Respect, Good Character, Human Dignity
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Topics: Love, Friendship, Truth
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Topics: Life, Philosophical, Alcohol, Life Balance, Banquets
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Topics: Philosophical, Cities, Confounding, City Life, Great Cities
Topics: Summer, Blessed, Men, Nicomachean Ethics
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Topics: Men, Politics, Politician
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Topics: Time, Philosophical, Youth, Intoxication
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Topics: Life, Philosophical, Fancy
Education is the best provision for old age.
Topics: Graduation, Education, Teaching, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Graduation
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Topics: Philosophical, Possibility, Mathematical
Topics: Philosophical, Doe, Vain
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Topics: Peace, Philosophical, Mathematical, Mathematical Logic, Logical Reasoning
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Topics: Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical, Friends Forever, One Friend
Topics: Courage, Philosophical, Brave, Moral Excellence
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Topics: Philosophical, Taken, Eye, Good Against Evil
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Topics: Inspirational, Witty, Humorous, Unbecoming, Nicomachean Ethics
Topics: Freedom, Equality, Government, Social Equality, Liberty And Equality
Topics: Witty, Equality, Men, Equal Respect, Political Science
Topics: Art, Choices, Inquiry, Nicomachean Ethics
source: - Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.48, Hackett Publishing
Topics: Happy Life, Long, Effort, Life Changing Experience
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
Topics: True Friend, True Life, Poverty, Prime Of Life, Misfortunes Of Others
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
Topics: Inspirational, Happiness, Self, Freedom And Happiness, Greek Philosopher
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development
Topics: History, Development
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
Topics: Being Strong, Justice, Pay, Equality And Justice, Heed
Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
Topics: Mother, Virtue, Consistently
Topics: Men, Self, Cost, Pleasant Things, Self Indulgent
Topics: Inspirational, Mean, Goal, Project Management