We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.