Echoes

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

These circumstances, trivial as they may seem, have their importance; since without them we could never have come to any certainty.

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

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

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

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.

Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

Through endurance we conquer.

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