Echoes

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

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

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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.

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

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

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

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

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

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Do not let anyone else run your business.

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

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that "All abilities come from one mind" sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.