Echoes

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

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

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

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

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.

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

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

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.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Through endurance we conquer.