Echoes

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

A man must shape himself to a new mark when the old one goes to ground.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

I am not concerned that I have no place; I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.