Stoic Quotes:
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life

"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

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

— Marcus Aurelius

"If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it."

— Marcus Aurelius

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

— Marcus Aurelius

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive."

— Marcus Aurelius

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself."

— Marcus Aurelius

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

— Marcus Aurelius

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

— Seneca

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

— Seneca

"He who is brave is free."

— Seneca

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

— Seneca

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

— Seneca

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

— Seneca

"While we wait for life, life passes."

— Seneca

"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."

— Seneca

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

— Epictetus

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

— Epictetus

"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at."

— Epictetus

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

— Epictetus

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

— Epictetus

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."

— Epictetus

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master."

— Epictetus

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things beyond our control."

— Epictetus