"Be not unwilling in what thou doest,..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”

“Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.”

“If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.”

“Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.”

“Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.”

“You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.”

“I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.”

“If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.”

“Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”