It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

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.

No great thing is created suddenly.

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.