“It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
Socrates
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”
Marcus Aurelius
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
“You become what you give your attention to…If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.”
Epictetus
“No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”
Seneca
“Don’t aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
Seneca
“It isn’t events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them.”
Epictetus
“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
“Receive without pride, let go without attachment.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.”
Seneca
“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
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be One.”
Marcus Aurelius
“It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”
Seneca
“It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.”
Seneca
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
Seneca
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
Seneca
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
Seneca
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
Epictetus
“You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.”
Seneca
“Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”
Colleen Hoover
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca
“It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.”
Marcus Aurelius
“There is no better way to grow as a person than to do something you hate every day.”
David Goggins
“If a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.”
Marcus Aurelius
“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.”
Naval Ravikant
“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”
Alessandro Pertini
“The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.”
Robert Greene
“The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do.”
Marcus Aurelius
“How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”
Seneca
“If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
Seneca
“People are frugal in guarding their personal property, but as soon as it comes to squandering time, they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”
Seneca
“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
Epictetus
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Epictetus
“Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”
Zeno
“Nature has given us control over nothing except our own thoughts and actions.”
Seneca
“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”
Plato
“The wise man is he who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
Epictetus
“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit.”
Marcus Aurelius
