Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

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.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.