Martin Svoboda

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

“Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.”

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

“Watch your thoughts; They become words. Watch your words; They become actions. Watch your actions; They become habits. Watch your habits; They become character. Watch your character; It becomes your destiny.”

“Every child is an artist until he's told he's not an artist.”

“Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.”

“It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”

“You might have one thing in your head, but the things you’re doing don’t really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you’re young, you don’t want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.”

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”

“Good people do not need law to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

“Man: a being in search of meaning.”

“You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.”

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.”

“O learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love´s fine wit.”

“Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.”