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

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.