knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Whatever you are, be a good one. Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is I know nothing. Happiness is not something ready-made, it comes from your own actions. There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle. You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. I have not failed, I have found ten thousand ways that won't work. Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. Let not your mind run on what you lack.

as much as on what you already have, be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it. Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. [Music] There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. [Music] To live happily is an inward power of the soul. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. [Music] Be the change that you wish to see in a world. [Music] Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can.

do that. [Music] Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. [Music] Even the finest sword, plunged into salt water, will eventually rust. [Music] You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the one who'll decide where to go. [Music] No man is free who is not master of himself. No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. [Music] Happiness depends upon ourselves. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Do what you can with what you have where you are. Everything you can imagine is real. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. Without music, life would be a mistake. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. [Music] We accept the love we think we deserve. It's never too late to be

what you might have been respect yourself and others will respect you. [Music] Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. [Music] Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence. [Music] Peace begins with a smile. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I'm possible. Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, it has no survival value, rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Difficulty strengthens the mind as labour does the body. Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. Very little is needed to make a happy

life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking try not to become a man of success rather become a man of value. [Music] have no fear of perfection you'll never reach it. [Music] eighty percent of success is showing up. [Music] it had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. [Music] to find yourself think for yourself. [Music] it is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. [Music] success is getting what you want happiness is wanting what you get. Never was anything great achieved without danger. In the midst of chaos there is also opportunity. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers. Above all the greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. [Music] sometimes even to live is an act of

Courage. We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [Music] Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. [Music] Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: first, hard work; second, stick-to-it-iveness; third, common sense. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. [Music] Appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak. The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. [Music] To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. [Music]

if I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. [Music] The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. [Music] If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do. If you want to fortune sides with him who dares. [Music] You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. [Music] To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. [Music] Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me, these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. I'm a success today because I had a

friend who believed in me, and I didn't have the heart to let him down. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. [Music] Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. [Music] There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within, everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself; think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world. [Music] Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. [Music] There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. [Music] Simplicity, patience, compassion, these three are your greatest treasures. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. [Music] You must understand that there is more

than one path to the top of the mountain. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure. Wisdom is the daughter of experience. [Music] Do nothing that is of no use. [Music] Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. [Music] Learning never exhausts the mind. [Music] The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. [Music] A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. Every heart sings a song incomplete until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. [Music] Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

2000 YEARS OF WISDOM IN 18 Mins - Wise Quotes That Will Change Your Life

2000 YEARS OF WISDOM IN 18 Mins - Wise Quotes That Will Change Your Life