List Of 50 Stoic Quotes:
#1 “You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
#2 “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” – Marcus Aurelius
#3 “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca
#4 “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny
#5 “The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.” – Epictetus
#6 “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” – Epictetus
#7 “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
#8 “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” – Seneca
#9 “If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius
#10 “No man is free, who is not master of himself.” – Epictetus
#11 “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” – Epictetus
#12 “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Seneca
#13 “He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.” – Seneca
#14 “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” – Seneca
#15 “To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.” – Marcus Aurelius
#16 “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus
#17 “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Seneca
#18 “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.” – Seneca
#19 “Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” – Epictetus
#20 “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you.” – Marcus Aurelius
#21 “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius
#22 “No great thing is created suddenly.” – Epictetus
#23 “How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” – Epictetus
#24 “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” – Marcus Aurelius
#25 “He who is brave is free.” – Seneca
#26 “The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” – Seneca
#27 “Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.” – Epictetus
#28 “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.” – Seneca
#29 “Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.” – Marcus Aurelius
#30 “Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus
#31 “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.” – Seneca
#32 “To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.” – Marcus Aurelius
#33 “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” – Seneca
#34 “Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—then your life will flow well.” – Epictetus
#35 “The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius
#36 “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus
#37 “To be even-minded is the greatest virtue.” – Heraclitus
#38 “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” – Seneca
#39 “It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” – Marcus Aurelius
#40 “Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?” – Seneca
#41 “Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what’s outside your control.” – Marcus Aurelius
#42 “No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.” – Seneca
#43 “Freedom is the realization that you have no control over anything but your own mind.” – Epictetus
#44 “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” – Seneca
#45 “Don’t allow yourself to be heard any longer griping about public life, not even with your own ears.” – Marcus Aurelius
#46 “He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.” – Epictetus
#47 “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” – Marcus Aurelius
#48 “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca
#49 “Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.” – Epictetus
#50 “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” – Seneca