At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that.

Throw away your books; stop letting yourself be distracted.

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.

But if you accept the obstacle and work with what you’re given, an alternative will present itself – another piece of what you’re trying to assemble. Action by action.

In a little while you will have forgotten everything; in a little while everything will have forgotten you.

It is our own opinions that disturb us. Take away these opinions then, and resolve to dismiss your judgment about an act as if it were something grievous, and your anger is gone.

Provoked by the sight of a handsome man or a beautiful woman, you will discover within you the contrary power of self-restraint. Faced with pain, you will discover the power of endurance. If you are insulted, you will discover patience. In time, you will grow to be confident that there is not a single impression that you will not have the moral means to tolerate.

If you don’t want to be cantankerous, don’t feed your temper, or multiply incidents of anger. Suppress the first impulse to be angry, then begin to count the days on which you don’t get mad.

If you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don’t like doing something, make a habit of doing something different. The same goes for moral inclinations. When you get angry, you should know that you aren’t guilty of an isolated lapse, you’ve encouraged a trend and thrown fuel on the fire.

Show me someone untroubled with disturbing thoughts about illness, danger, death, exile or loss of reputation. By all the gods, I want to see a Stoic!

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

Who wants to live with delusion and prejudice, being unjust, undisciplined, mean and ungrateful? ‘No one.’ No bad person, then, lives the way he wants, and no bad man is free.

Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Then protection of his status appears to be his most important need, and this creates anxiety.

There is fear and insecurity in pride, for when one aims at being highly esteemed, and having achieved such status, he is automatically involved in the fear of losing one’s status.

The important thing is that I am personally satisfied with my work. If it is a piece of junk, I will only regret it.

Realizing that my emotions are both positive and negative, I will form daily habits which will encourage the development of the positive emotions and aid me in converting the negative emotions into some form of useful action.

Most people can talk without listening. Very few can listen without talking. It is very rare that people can talk and listen.

What I detest most are dishonest people who talk more than they are capable of doing.

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.