Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

Be as you wish to seem.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

No driver is perfect.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

The best is the enemy of the good.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

I’m selfish.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.