Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your currentjob, industry, education, experience or interests.
There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
There is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.
If you want something, work for it. Prayer is super-fantstic, faith is 'mwah'! But work is necessary and important. So work for what you want.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up and does not stop until you get into the office.
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
True victory, beloved, lies not just in the immediate conquest but in the wisdom to discern the long shadow it may cast.
Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.
There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.
