Echoes

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

The child is father of the man.

Man is what he believes.

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

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

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

Parents love their children as themselves; for their issue are by virtue of their separate existence a sort of other selves.

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

To be a good mother — a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

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

To make ourselves, to shape a form from various elements — that is the task! The task of a sculptor! Of a productive human being!

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.