He . . . got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.