Practice

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Withdraw into yourself and look.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Be still, and know that I am God.

In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Things do not change; we change.

First keep peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

Look within; within is the fountain of good.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Demand not that events should happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

He who is brave is free.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Yoga is the stilling of the modifications of the mind.

The mind is restless and hard to restrain, but it is subdued by practice.

Let the motive be in the action, not in the fruits of the action.

The self is the friend of the self for him who has conquered himself.

Mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

The Tao does nothing, yet nothing is left undone.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Confine yourself to the present.