There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

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.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

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.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

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.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.

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