Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.