Echoes

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

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

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

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

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

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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

All life is problem-solving.

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

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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 only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

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

Life is a journey, not a destination.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

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