“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

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

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

Confine yourself to the present.

Life is opinion.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Do not be ashamed of help.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

One’s desire, not ability, determines success.

Someone else’s action should not determine your response.