"No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind."

Hill, Napoleon on Failure
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"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."

Aristotle on Youth
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"To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."

Aristotle on Writers and Writing
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"Melancholy men are of all others the most witty."

Aristotle on Wit
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"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle on Wit
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"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."

Aristotle on Virtue
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"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

Aristotle on Virtue
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"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."

Aristotle on Truth
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"The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions."

Aristotle on Tragedies
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle on Character
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"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids."

Aristotle on Character
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"Well begun is half done."

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

Aristotle on Action
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Aristotle on Action
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"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."

Aristotle on Action
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"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

Aristotle on Action
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

Aristotle on Suffering
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"They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else."

Aristotle on Youth
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."

Aristotle on Cities and City Life
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"The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."

Hill, Napoleon on Desire
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"Indecision is the seedling of fear."

Hill, Napoleon on Decisions
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"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."

Lee, Robert E. on Self-control
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"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."

Woolf, Virginia on Self-control
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"I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on Self-control
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"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."

Miller, Henry on Self-control
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"Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward."

Hill, Napoleon on Self-control
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"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Self-control
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"We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win."

Gibbon, Edward on Self-control
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on Self-control
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"When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something."

Browning, Robert on Self-control
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"The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust."

Billings, Josh on Self-control
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"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 on Crisis
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"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."

Aristotle on Courage
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"It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy."

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

Aristotle on Courage
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"The soul never thinks without a picture."

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

Aristotle on Self-control
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"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 on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"Happiness is a sort of action."

Aristotle on Happiness
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"Happiness is activity."

Aristotle on Happiness
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