Acquire Quote by Aristotle Download Open image “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acquire Acting Men Particular Quality Way
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error. — Eugenio Maria de Hostos Copy Share Image
The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we can respect.… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share 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… — Aristotle Copy Share 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. — Aristotle Copy Share 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… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share 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… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share 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… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take… — Mike Aquilina Copy Share Image
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it? — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image