Echoes

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

My life is my message.

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

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

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

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

Well done is better than well said.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.

Man is what he believes.

All praise of virtue consists in action.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Of a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Never stray from the Way.

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

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.