You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
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Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.
Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
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.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
True strength lies in gentleness.
So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
Old age is no place for sissies.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
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.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
