First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty
Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.