Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Creativity
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Effort
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Focus
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Perseverance, Persistence
It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.
Courage
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Birthday
Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
Birthday
Remember this - very little is needed to make a happy life.
Happiness
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Vision
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Ambition
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
Change
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Attitude
Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which, though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.
Philosophy
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong as its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Happiness
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Happiness
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Character
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be, be one.
Action
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
Change
We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it?
Action
You will give yourself peace of mind if you perform every act of your life as if it were your last.
