He who knows much about others is learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums who can’t and those in cemeteries.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

Though Musashi may have been great, the seven samurai had more fun. Stick with a team.

The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence, the greatest conqueror wins without a struggle, and the most successful manager leads without dictation. This is called intelligent non aggressiveness, this is called mastery of men.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

A few belts will put a smile on your face, but a black belt will keep it there.

Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, or what he might have.

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.

People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals. That is goals that do not inspire them.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

They can because they think they can.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

Our doubts are traitors of thought and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Our bodies are our gardens; our wills are gardeners.

There is only one success; to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Things do not change; people change.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

To succeed is
To laugh often and much
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends
To appreciate beauty and find the best in others
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a child, a garden patch or redeemed social condition
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived
This is to have succeeded