Spirit in Discipline Quotes

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change."

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened."

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome."

"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"I exist as I am, that is enough."

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life."

"The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition."

"If you can't be happy with a coffee, you won't be happy with a yacht."

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

"The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you."

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances."

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."

"You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes... But still, like air, I’ll rise."

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life."