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.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

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

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are so often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.