Echoes

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

My life is my message.

It would be better for me that the whole world should disagree with me than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Though the whole world should praise him, he would not be stimulated to greater endeavour, and though the whole world should condemn him, he would not be depressed. So fixed was he in the difference between the internal judgement of himself and the external judgement of others.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.