Strength

“You have power over your mind, not over outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“Do not torment yourself with the future. You will meet it, if you must, with the same reason that serves you in the present.”

“The best way to avenge yourself: do not become like the one who did the wrong.”

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”

“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“All things are possible to the one who believes.”

“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“Man is something that shall be overcome.”

“He who fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

“Have courage to use your own understanding!”

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so many people gladly remain immature for life.”

“It is far safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two must be lacking.”

“Whoever makes another powerful ruins himself.”

“Injuries should be inflicted all at once, so they hurt for less time. Benefits should be given slowly, so they are savoured longer.”

“Know the other and know yourself, and you need not fear a hundred encounters.”

“A hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest skill. To undo resistance without fighting is.”

“Victory is prepared before it is sought. Whoever begins to plan mid-fight has already lost.”

“It is not because it is hard that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that it is hard.”

“Some things are up to us and some are not. All peace begins with telling the two apart.”

“Do not talk about how a good person should be. Be one.”

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say.”

“Say to yourself at dawn: today I will meet the ungrateful, the arrogant, the envious. None of them can harm me.”

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing: you must stand ready for what comes unannounced.”

“The best revenge is to be unlike the one who did the wrong.”

“The one who is feared by many has many to fear.”

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

“Fire tests gold, misfortune tests the strong.”

“Difficulty shows what a person is. No wrestler grows strong without an opponent.”

“Some things are in our power, others are not. All peace begins with knowing the difference.”

“If someone blames you and you are not disturbed, they have struck nothing that belongs to you.”

“No one is free who is not master of themselves.”

“One who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“Dare to use your own understanding.”

“Whoever makes another powerful ruins themselves.”

“Injuries should be inflicted all at once, benefits given little by little.”

“One who wishes to be good in everything is ruined among so many who are not.”

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.”

“The supreme art is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“In calm prepare. In storm act.”

“Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the other's unreadiness.”

“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”

“What fortune has not given, it cannot take away.”

“Where it is possible to live, it is possible to live well.”

“You can drop any tormenting thought at any moment and be at once in complete calm.”

“Everything that happens happens either as you can bear it, or as you cannot.”

“First say to yourself what you want to be. Then do what you have to do.”

“I love him who wants to create beyond himself, and so perishes.”

“It is not enough to know, one must apply. It is not enough to will, one must do.”

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

“Nothing in the world is softer than water, and yet it defeats the hard.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.”

“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him to himself.”

“Act now. There is never any time but now.”