Stoic Quotes on
Temperance
Our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to
Marcus Aurelius
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
Brené Brown
We should always be asking ourselves - is this something that is, or is not, in my control?
Epictetus
Our thoughts make us what we are.
Dale Carnegie
Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.
Epictetus
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
Sir Winston Churchill
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
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
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us - power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Dale Carnegie
What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?
Seneca
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so, wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Seneca
Success is walking from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
The man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day.
Seneca
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me. Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
Marcus Aurelius
You only have to doze a moment, and all is lost. For ruin and salvation both have their source inside you.
Epictetus
Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.
Marcus Aurelius
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
We ought not, therefore, to give over our hearts for good to any one part of the world. We should live with the conviction: 'I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world is my home country.'
Seneca
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
Marcus Aurelius
Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell.
Marcus Aurelius
Another useful point to bear in mind: What qualities has nature given us to counter that defect? As an antidote to unkindness it gave us kindness. And other qualities to balance other flaws.
Marcus Aurelius
Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?
Epictetus
Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
Marcus Aurelius
Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.
Epictetus
Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
Marcus Aurelius
Nothing satisfies greed, but even a little satisfies nature.
Seneca
Let your will to avoid have no concern with what is not in man's power; direct it only to things in man's power that are contrary to nature.
Epictetus
