101
There are those who have gone, for want of this self-knowledge, strangely out of their way, and others who have never found it.
The complete collection
The quote database
Every quote we hold, 1549 of them from 213 people across 387 works. Filter it, sort it, and follow any citation back to the source.
1529 checked at source
Filter the collection
Category
Feeling
Attribution
102
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
103
The normal opener of deeper and deeper levels of energy is the will.
104
Excitements, ideas, and efforts, in a word, are what carry us over the dam.
105
Most of us continue living unnecessarily near our surface.
106
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
107
Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
108
We are all to some degree oppressed, unfree. We don't come to our own. It is there, but we don't get at it. The threshold must be made to shift.
109
It is notorious that a single successful effort of moral volition, such as saying 'no' to some habitual temptation, or performing some courageous act, will launch a man on a higher level of energy for days and weeks, will give him a new range of power.
110
Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.