Motivational Status in English

The most important thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Excellence is never an accident. It is the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

In a democracy, the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

It is easy to fly into a passion; anyone can do that. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, this is not easy.