Karl G. Maeser Quotes

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

Be as you wish to seem.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.