Echoes

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

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Men at some time are masters of their fates:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

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

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

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

Do not let anyone else run your business.

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

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

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

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

A man contains all that is needful to his government within himself. He is made a law unto himself. All real good or evil that can befal [sic] him must be from himself. He only can do himself any good or any harm. Nothing can be given to him or can taken from him but always there is a compensation.. There is a correspondence between the human soul and everything that exists in the world; more properly, everything that is known to man. Instead of studying things without the principles of them, all may be penetrated unto with him. Every act puts the agent in a new position. The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself. He is not to live the future as described to him but to live the real future to the real present. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

The gods help them that help themselves.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.

When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.