I am the captain of my soul.
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.
The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
The more I see the less I know for sure.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.
He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
We run to win, not just to be in the race.
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
