Echoes

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

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

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

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

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.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

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

Character is the virtue of hard times.

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

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

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.

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

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

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

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

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

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

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

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.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.