Aristotle - Success and Happiness - Quotes to Motivate Inspire & Live by

Success and Happiness Quotes To Motivate Inspire & Live by Atticus Aristotle
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The Human Mind is a very powerful tool. It is capable ofcreating miracles, of creating something out of nothing. The Human Mind isthousands of times more advanced than the best computers in the world. And yet,everyone underestimates the potential of the human spirit when the mind is seton a specific goal. Miracles begin to happen.

A mother can lift a four thousandpound car off her child. A person who never walked more than two blocks can runa marathon. Two strangers look into each others eyes and know right away theywere meant for each other, and then spend the next fifty years as one,completing each others thoughts. We can move mountains when we set our minds to the task.Weve reached and walked on the moon because someone looked up one day and settheir mind to reaching the moon. Success is easy to achieve once you set your mind on aspecific goal. The quotes here will help you achieve those goals, turningfailure into opportunity.

Happiness is about how we face the day, how we facechallenges and how we face each other. Happiness is driven by the mind. So thatno matter the circumstance, or how difficult life becomes, having the rightoutlook means youll always come through, just as you intended to. The phrases and sayings are grouped by topics to help youachieve your goals, with your character and integrity intact. These quotes, bysome of the most famous people in history, will help you succeed; will help youchange your perspective on life, so that each adversity becomes a test of yourwill, of your spirit. You already have the worlds most advanced creation: yourmind.

Use it to create your own miracles.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, toinjure no one, and to give every man his due. Justinian I A promise made is a debt unpaid. Robert W. Service We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called onto perform what we cannot. Abraham Lincoln The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will curethe fault and never forgive you. Logan Pearsall Smith Frankness invites frankness. Ralph Waldo Emerson An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee;only a very few people can swallow it. Emily Post The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you nevercatch up with it. Clarence Darrow Honesty is not a policy, it is a state of mind. Donald T. Donald T.

Regan A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. Edgar J. Mohn If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. The Talmud What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with yourmouth. Jewish proverb A belief is not true because it is useful. Henri Amiel Lying can never save us from another lie.

Vaclav Havel Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerlessagainst truth. Thomas Henry Huxley It is better to be hated for what you are than to be lovedfor what you are not. Andre Gide Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity,and find that there was no advantage in them -- that it was a vain endeavor? Henry David Thoreau Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police. Albert Einstein Whatever else may be shaken, there are some facts establishedbeyond warring: virtue is better than vice, truth is better than falsehood,kindness than brutality. Quintin Hogg The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatestmen. J.C.

Hare It is more shameful to distrust ones friends than to bedeceived by them. Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we useto conceal them. Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld The truth needs so little rehearsal. Barbara Kingsolver It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain whyyou did it wrong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, theevil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth. Indian proverb The most faithful mirror is an old friend.

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treatsthose who can do nothing for him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when theythemselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke The value of marriage is not that adults produce children butthat children produce adults. Peter de Vries Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are agood person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because youare a vegetarian. Dennis Wholey I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour fromme, and my life is done.

William Shakespeare The liars punishment is not in the least that he is notbelieved, but that he cannot believe anyone else. George Bernard Shaw The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment tothemselves. William Penn Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good. William Penn Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action;actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. Unknown They who give have all things; they who withhold havenothing. Hindu proverb Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) No man is more cheated than a selfish man. Henry Ward Beecher Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius People pay for what they do, and still more, for what theyhave allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the livesthey lead. Edith Wharton Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby inthyself. Felix Adler Doubt breeds doubt.

Franz Grillparzer We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have agood chance of becoming a prophet. Isaac Bashevis Singer The words you speak today should be soft and tender ... fortomorrow you may have to eat them. Unknown Hatred is blind, anger is foolhardy, and he who pours outvengeance risks having to drink a bitter draft. Alexandre Dumas When the Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, Hewrites not that you won or lost, but how you played the Game.

Grantland Rice To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. John W. Gardner Let no man be sorry he has done good because others have doneevil. If a man has acted right he has done well, though alone. If wrong, the sanctionof all mankind will not justify him. Henry Fielding Cheat the earth and the earth will cheat you.

Chinese proverb If you want happiness for an hour; take a nap. If you wanthappiness for a day; go fishing. If you want happiness for a month; getmarried. If you want happiness for a year; inherit a fortune. If you wanthappiness for a lifetime; help someone else. Chinese proverb ~~~~~

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not sayit.

Marcus Aurelius A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. Albert Camus Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. Jane Addams Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management andpolitics to mere technique. James MacGregor Burns Bear the blame for your behavior. Price Pritchett Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not changewith the calendar. David Herbert Lawrence Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have aright to do and what is right to do.

Potter Stewart Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. Albert Schweitzer I can do no other than be reverent before everything that iscalled life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is calledlife. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. Albert Schweitzer If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your timemanaging yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation,and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and15% managing your peers.

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