Aristotle

All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

The Gods too are fond of a joke.

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it... we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Happiness is a state of activity.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases or preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues...<br /><br />This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence (aka Aret&eacute;) then, is not an act, but a habit.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.

We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs...

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Money—beyond the bare minimum necessary for food and shelter (and I am not talking caviar and castles)—is nothing more than a means to an end. Yet so often we confuse means with ends and sacrifice happiness (end) for money (means).” “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Anyone can become angry —that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose.

Whatever we learn to do we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

Moral virtues, like crafts, are acquired by practice and habituation.

What is the good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

By common consent, the beginning is more than half the whole task, and throws a flood of light on many of the aspects of the inquiry.

This much, then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended. But one should incline sometimes towards excess and sometimes toward deficiency, because in this way we shall most easily hit upon the mean, that is, the right course.

So too it is easy to get angry—anyone can do that—or to give and spend money; but to feel or act toward the right person to the right extent at the right time for the right reason in the right way—that is not easy, and it is not everyone that can do it. Hence to do these things well is a rare, laudable and fine achievement.

Those states that are praiseworthy we call virtues.

Rash people are impetuous, eager before danger arrives but shifty when it is actually present; whereas courageous ones are keen at the time of action but calm beforehand.

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act, but a habit.