If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

Sorrow prepares you for joy.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

All limitations are self-imposed.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

I had made the religion of service my own, as I felt that God could be realized only through service.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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.

False leaders rarely engage succession planning for fear of no longer being seen as the leader.

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