If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
Don't stumble over something behind you.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
You are your choices.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Find a path or make one.
He is most powerful who governs himself.
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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