Be better than yourself not someone else.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

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

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

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

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

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

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.