Real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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.

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

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

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.

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.

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

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.