Character Quote by Ryan Holiday

“Aristotle defined the virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Aristotle observed that people become virtuous by acting virtuous: if you do good, you’ll be good.”

— Herminia Ibarra

“Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.”

— Barry Schwartz

“Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice…

— José Saramago

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

— Aristotle

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those…

— James Lee Burke

“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgement.”

— Euripides

“The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Aristotle also observed that every virtue seems to be bang in the middle of two vices. It occupies what he termed ‘the golden mean’…

— The School of Life

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

— Terry Eagleton

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through its opposite, laziness.”

— Miguel de Cervantes