The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

Change how you see and see how you change.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Moral virtue is the child of habit.

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

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.