Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

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

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Now is the accepted time.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

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.

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.