Hannibal Barca

"Confine yourself to the present."

"The impediment to action advances action."

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small."

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

"Unhappiness is dissatisfaction with what you have."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it."

"You have within you right now everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter."

"Choose not to be harmed and you won't be."

"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself this question: what fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"

"Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life."

"No one can rob you of your free will."

"The universe is change, our life is what our thoughts make it."

"A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any moment."

"Commit yourself to excellence from this day forward."

"You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

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

"External things are not the problem. It is your judgments about them."

"As you think, so you become."

"You have survived every bad day so far."

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things."

"Life is long if you know how to use it."

"To understand the world, one must withdraw from it now and then."

"What we resist persists, what we accept transforms."

"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."

"That which makes the unmarked paths marked is the walking."