Echoes

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

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

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

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

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

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

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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

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.

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.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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

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

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.

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

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

I am not concerned that I have no place; I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Through endurance we conquer.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.