You learn in life the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

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.

Change how you see and see how you change.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

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.

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.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

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.

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.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.