The journey of a 1000 miles begins with one step.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Not all, what happens, happens because of fate. Something is in our hands.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Don’t think, just do.
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
There is no success without hardship.
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your calling.
The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.
People are distressed by their inability to do it. The problem, however, is simply that they don’t do it.
Through discipline comes freedom.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Carpe diem. (Seize The Day)
For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.
To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.
Leave no stone unturned.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.
Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
I’ll tell you a secret. Something they don’t teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Patience puts a crown on the head.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live.
The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Where there are experts there will be no lack of learners.
Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has forgotten who he really is, but he will recover, for he used to know me, and all I have to do is cloud the mist that beclouds his vision.
When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.
Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered
