How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

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

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

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.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

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

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

A friend is as it were a second self.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.