Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.