Echoes

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

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

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

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The gods help them that help themselves.

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

Henceforth I ask not good fortune — I myself am good fortune.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

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

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

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.