Action Quotes

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Napoleon Hill

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.

- Stephen Covey 

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

- ‎Frances Willard 

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

- Hannah Arendt 

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill 

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Napoleon Hill 

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

- Stevie Wonder 

‎Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

- Wim Wenders 

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.

- Mark Twain 

Action is eloquence.

- William Shakespeare 

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.

- Aristotle 

Think globally, act locally.

- Rene Dubos 

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

- Audre Lorde 

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

- Napoleon Hill 

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt 

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

- Buddha 

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt 

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

- Immanuel Kant 

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

- Madame de Stael 

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh 

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus 

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Abraham Lincoln 

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

- Buddha 

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

- Abraham Maslow 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy 

Great talent finds happiness in execution.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them.

- Barack Obama 

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt 

The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough...we must live them!

- High Eagle 

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Orison Swett Marden 

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt 

There are no gains without pains.

- Benjamin Franklin 

Vision Quotes

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter 

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so foaming, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

- Soren Kierkegaard 

Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.

- Louis D. Brandeis 

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

- Carl Jung 

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie 

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

- Martha Graham 

One of the most powerful, and deeply spiritual, ways to work for social change is for us to take action in the present that embodies -- right now! -- the future vision that we seek

- Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow 

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

- Peace Pilgrim 

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

- George Washington Carve

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

- Albert Einstein 

In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.

- High Eagle 

You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?' The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing.' What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river. [The Book of the Vision Quest]

- Steven Foster 

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer 

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

- Donald Williams 

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

- Audre Lorde 

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

- Helen Keller 

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

- Kalidasa 

Achievement Quotes

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill 

You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.

- Amelia Earhart 

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

- Grenville Kleiser 

Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

- Zig Ziglar 

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- William Jennings Bryan 

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

- Betty Ford 

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

- Benjamin Franklin 

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

- Ken Venturi 

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

- Mia Hamm 

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

- Mia Hamm 

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

- Vincent van Gogh 

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh 

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller 

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

- Mabel Newcomber 

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

- Helen Hayes 

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Orison Swett Marden 

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

- Francis Bacon 

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

- Elizabeth Dole 

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt 

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

- Bernadette Devlin 

To fly, we have to have resistance.

- Maya Lin

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

To be great is to be misunderstood.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

~  Benjamin Franklin 

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

~  Benjamin Franklin

 

Applause waits on success. 

 ~  Benjamin Franklin

 

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

~  Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

~  Benjamin Franklin

 

A place for everything, everything in its place.

~  Benjamin Franklin

Aristotle Quotes

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
~ Aristotle


Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
~ Aristotle


Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
~ Aristotle


Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
~ Aristotle


Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
~ Aristotle


Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~ Aristotle


Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
~ Aristotle


Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
~ Aristotle


Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
~ Aristotle


Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
~ Aristotle


Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
~ Aristotle


To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
~ Aristotle


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


We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
~ Aristotle


We make war that we may live in peace.
~ Aristotle


We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
~ Aristotle


Man is by nature a political animal.
~ Aristotle


My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
~ Aristotle


You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~ Aristotle


Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
~ Aristotle


A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
~ Aristotle


A friend to all is a friend to none.
~ Aristotle


A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
~ Aristotle


A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
~ Aristotle


A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
~ Aristotle


A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
~ Aristotle


A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
~ Aristotle


All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
~ Aristotle


All men by nature desire knowledge.
~ Aristotle


All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
~ Aristotle


Nature does nothing in vain.
~ Aristotle


No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
~ Aristotle


No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
~ Aristotle


No one loves the man whom he fears.
~ Aristotle


We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
~ Aristotle


Well begun is half done.
~ Aristotle


What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle


What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
~ Aristotle


What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
~ Aristotle


Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
~ Aristotle


Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~ Aristotle


Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
~ Aristotle


Wit is educated insolence.
~ Aristotle


Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
~ Aristotle


The secret to humor is surprise.
~ Aristotle


The soul never thinks without a picture.
~ Aristotle


The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
~ Aristotle


Hope is a waking dream.
~ Aristotle


Hope is the dream of a waking man.
~ Aristotle


I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
~ Aristotle


I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
~ Aristotle


The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
~ Aristotle


The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
~ Aristotle


The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
~ Aristotle


The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
~ Aristotle


The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
~ Aristotle


There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
~ Aristotle


He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
~ Aristotle


He who hath many friends hath none.
~ Aristotle


He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
~ Aristotle


He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
~ Aristotle


If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
~ Aristotle


If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
~ Aristotle


In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
~ Aristotle


In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
~ Aristotle


In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
~ Aristotle


In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
~ Aristotle


Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
~ Aristotle


It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
~ Aristotle


It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
~ Aristotle


It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
~ Aristotle


Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
~ Aristotle


Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
~ Aristotle


There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
~ Aristotle


No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
~ Aristotle


Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
~ Aristotle


All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
~ Aristotle


Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
~ Aristotle


At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
~ Aristotle


Bad men are full of repentance.
~ Aristotle


Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
~ Aristotle


Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
~ Aristotle


Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
~ Aristotle


But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
~ Aristotle


Change in all things is sweet.
~ Aristotle


Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
~ Aristotle


Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
~ Aristotle


The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
~ Aristotle


The gods too are fond of a joke.
~ Aristotle


The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
~ Aristotle


The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
~ Aristotle


The law is reason, free from passion.
~ Aristotle


The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
~ Aristotle


The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
~ Aristotle


The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
~ Aristotle


The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~ Aristotle


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
~ Aristotle


Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
~ Aristotle


Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
~ Aristotle


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.
~ Aristotle


Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
~ Aristotle


Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
~ Aristotle


Most people would rather give than get affection.
~ Aristotle


Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
~ Aristotle


Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
~ Aristotle


Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
~ Aristotle


For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
~ Aristotle


It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
~ Aristotle


It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
~ Aristotle


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle


It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
~ Aristotle


Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
~ Aristotle


For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
~ Aristotle


For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
~ Aristotle


Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle


Friendship is essentially a partnership.
~ Aristotle


Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
~ Aristotle


Happiness depends upon ourselves.
~ Aristotle


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


Education is the best provision for old age.
~ Aristotle


Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
~ Aristotle


Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
~ Aristotle

Thomas A. Edison Quotes

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”
  ― Thomas A. Edison

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Vision without execution is hallucination.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“What you are will show in what you do.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“i never did a day’s work in my life. it was all fun.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~ ”
― Thomas A. Edison

“To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“There is no substitute for hard work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“There is time for everything.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“There is always a better way.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“This problem, once solved, will be simple.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“The value of an idea lies in using it”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”
― Thomas A. Edison

“We have but two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak”
― Thomas A. Edison

“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing”
― Thomas A. Edison

“It is very beautiful over there. (last words)”
― Thomas A. Edison

“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“There's a way to do it better - find it.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“If we did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.”
― Thomas A. Edison