Aristotle Quotes About Praise

• We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

  Aristotle

  Anger, Men, Praise

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

• Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

  Aristotle

  Honesty, Men, Excellence

• Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

  Aristotle

  Praise, Standards, Higher Standards

  Aristotle (1987). “The Nicomachean Ethics”

• No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Blessing, Justice

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

• The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

  Aristotle

  Men, Benefits, Shame

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