We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

What we achieve inwardly will change our outer reality.

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

I believe that we must look outwards, not inwards, to test our true economic potential - measuring ourselves against our international competitors.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

We had become what the world outside had made us; we had to live in the world as it existed.

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.