There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

I’m not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any man or order of men.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Sleep that masters all.

No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.