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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.

I love my past. I love my present. Im not ashamed of what Ive had, and Im not sad because I have it no longer.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.

Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Joy is the best makeup.

Never promise more than you can perform.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Be the chief but never the lord.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept responsibility for changing them.

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves... there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

No man was ever wise by chance.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

The cautious seldom err.

Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.