Best Quotes by Marcus Aurelius (Top 10)
-
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
-
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius
-
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
-
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
-
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius
-
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
-
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
-
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
-
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
Marcus Aurelius
-
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
-
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.
Marcus Aurelius
-
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aurelius
-
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius
-
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius
-
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
-
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius
-
What we do in life ripples in eternity.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Marcus Aurelius
-
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius
-
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius
-
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius
-
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
Marcus Aurelius
-
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
-
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
Marcus Aurelius
-
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Anger cannot be dishonest.
Marcus Aurelius
-
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
Marcus Aurelius
-
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
-
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius
-
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius
-
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Each day provides its own gifts.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Be content to seem what you really are.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
Marcus Aurelius
-
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
Marcus Aurelius
-
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
-
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Marcus Aurelius