Echoes

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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

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

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

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

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

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Arise, begin this very moment, and say, “Now is the time to do: now is the time to fight, now is the proper time for amendment.”

Be thou never without something to do; be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or doing something that is useful to the community.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

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

Do the thing, and you shall have the power; but they who do not do the thing have not the power.

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

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

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

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Do not let anyone else run your business.