The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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.

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.

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.

No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.