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Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Believe, Truth Is, Accepting

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Motivational, Wise, Intelligent

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Logical, Shoreline, Knows

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Inspirational, Education, Teacher

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Journey, Important Relationships, Knowing

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

Meaningful, Goal, Life Is

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

Character, Evil, Choices

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

Missing, Problem, Lows

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Inspirational, Relationship, Failure

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

Hearing, Fool, Nonsense

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

Self, Excellence, Events

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

Thinking, Ability

Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Firsts, Virtue

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Being Strong, Justice, Pay

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Giving, Democracy, Republic

Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

War, Mean, Men

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Learning, Snow, Appreciate

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

People, Patriot, Unarmed

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Soul, Quality, Function

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

Wise, Simple, Men

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

Over You, Needs, Purpose

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Truth, Science, Men

Character is revealed through action.

Character, Action

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