An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
Effort is a measure of a Man.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement’s of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
The education of attention would be an education par excellence.
Truth happens to an idea.
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.