Everyone needs a little inspiration at times and where better to look for it than with some of the great ancient thinkers. Their words on success and life hold as true today as the did centuries ago and may be just give you the lift you're looking for.

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work" - Aristotle

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don't stop" - Confucius

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be" - Lao Tzu

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" - Socrates

"Our life is what our thoughts make it" - Marcus Aurelius

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others" - Cicero

"Happiness and freedom begin with one principle. Some things are within your control and some are not" - Epictetus

"Difficulties strengthen the mind as labour does the body" - Seneca

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

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live" - Marcus Aurelius

"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly" - Plato

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" - Seneca

"Very little is needed to make a happy life: it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking" - Marcus Aurelius

"A room without books is like a body without a soul" - Cicero

"They can conquer who believe they can" - Virgil

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new" - Socrates

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall" - Confucius

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises" - Demosthenes

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power" - Lao Tzu

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca

"The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself" - Thales

“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” - Aristotle

“A man’s character is his fate.” - Heraclitus

“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in few.” - Pythagoras

"Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us" - Plotinus

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity" - Sun Tzu

"Make the best use of what's in your power and take the rest as it happens" - Epictetus

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds." - Patanjali

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