It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!

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.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.