Skip to content

Greatness Quote by Aristotle

“Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.” quote by Aristotle — Download Open image

“Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Greatness Hard Impossible Moral Nobility Ornaments Seems Soul Virtue

More by Aristotle

The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…

Image

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

Image

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

Image

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It…

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…

Image

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are…

All men by nature desire to know.

Image

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Image

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of…

Image

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Image

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

Image

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Image

Explore all 1,545 Aristotle quotes

More Greatness quotes

“The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.”

Image

“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

Image

We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the…

Image

Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people

Image

Perfection is the enemy of greatness

Image

A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of…

Calvin Coolidge

Image

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

Marianne Williamson

Image

Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.

Image

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves…

Image

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb…

Christian Nestell Bovee

Image

“There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one". I…

John A. Passaro

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

Image

Browse all 3,954 Greatness quotes