Unlocking the timeless wisdom of Stoicism,this article delves into a collection of insightful Stoic quotes that resonate with the modern soul.Embracing the essence of resilience,inner peace, and acceptance,these Stoic quotes serve as guiding beacons in navigating life's challenges.From the profound musings of Marcus Aurelius to the poignant reflections of Epictetus,each quote encapsulates the stoic philosophy's enduring relevance.Join us on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment as we explore the profound depths of Stoicism through these inspirational quotes.
Stoicism Quotes:
1. “Happiness is a good flow of life.”
3. “Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”
4. “We have two ears and one mouth,so we should listen more than we say.”
5. “Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”
6. “A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason,and against nature.”
7. “If you lay violent hands on me,you’ll have my body,but my mind will remain with Stilpo.”
8. “The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.”
9. “If it is not right,do not do it,if it is not true, do not say it.”
10. “Think of the life you have lived until now as over and,as a dead man,see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature.Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own,for what could be more fitting?”
Stoicism quotes on life:
11. “You could leave life right now.Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
12. “In your actions,don’t procrastinate.In your conversations,don’t confuse.In your thoughts,don’t wander.In your soul,don’t be passive or aggressive.In your life,don’t be all about business.”
13. “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.”
14. “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
15. “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be.Be One.”
16. “If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change.It’s the truth I’m after,and the truth never harmed anyone.”
17. “Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed.Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”
18. “Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”
19. “It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people,but care more about their opinion than our own.”
20. “Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life.Let us postpone nothing.Let us balance life’s books each day...The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.”
Stoicism quotes Marcus Aurelius:
21. “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
22. “How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?”
23. “Curb your desire—don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.”
24. “The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control,and which have to do with the choices I actually control.Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals,but within myself to the choices that are my own . . .”
25. “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.”
26. “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
27. “If anyone tells you that a certainperson speaks ill of you,do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer,‘He was ignorant of my other faults,else he would have not mentioned these alone.’”
28. “That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning,but to add practice and then training.For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite,and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.”
29. “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,whose presence calls forth your best.”
30. “If you want to improve,be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Stoicism quotes on love:
31. “Nothing,to my way of thinking,is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
32. “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
33. “How does it help . . . to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”
34. “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.”
35. “He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”
36. “I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune.You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of,not even you.”
37. “If a man knows not which port he sails,no wind is favorable.”
38. “Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past,neglect the present,and fear the future.”
39. “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.”
40. “The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man,and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is.”
Stoic quotes on self-improvement:
41. “It is only by participation in a rational,practice-based community that one becomes rational.”
42. “Man is essentially a story-telling animal, but a teller of stories that aspire to truth.”
43. “The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man.”
44. “I can only answer the question‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’”
45. “Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior,but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.”
46. “To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world,an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”
47. “As human beings,we ought to be vulnerable.We shouldn’t try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that’s necessary for a good life on our own,because we need other people.”
48. “Life is about more than earning a living,and if you’re not in the habit of thinking about it,you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.”
49. “You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.”
50. “Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.”
Stoic quotes on strength:
51. “I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.”–Cato
52. “Make the mind tougher by exposing it to adversity.”–Robert Greene
53. “To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.”―Zen proverb
54. “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”–Marcus Aurelius
55. “We should always be asking ourselves: “Is this something that is,or is not,in my control?”—Epictetus
56. “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery.Calmness is power.”–James Allen
57. “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”―Seneca
58. “Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed.Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been.”–Marcus Aurelius
59. “External thinks are not the problem.It’s your assessment of them.Which you can erase right now.”–Marcus Aurelius
60. “Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”–Marcus Aurelius
Stoic quotes on purpose:
61. “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”–Seneca
62. “To be even-minded is the greatest virtue.”—Heraclitus
63. “Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.”–Marcus Aurelius
64. “If you are pained by any external thing,it is not this thing that disturbs you,but your own judgment about it.And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now.”—Marcus Aurelius
65. “Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”–Shannon L.Alder
66. “We should not,like sheep,follow the herd of creatures in front of us,making our way where others go,not where we ought to go.”—Seneca
67. “Time is like a river made up of the events which happen,and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen,it is carried away,and another comes in its place,and this will be carried away too.”―Marcus Aurelius
68. “Look back over the past,with its changing empires that rose and fell,and you can foresee the future too.”—Marcus Aurelius
69. “The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.”–Othello
70. “No great thing is created suddenly,any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.If you tell me that you desire a fig,I answer that there must be time.Let it first blossom,then bear fruit,then ripen.”—Epictetus
Powerful Stoicism quotes:
71. “I have to die.If it is now,well then I die now; if later,then now I will take my lunch,since the hour for lunch has arrived – and dying I will tend to later.”—Epictetus
72. “Complaining does not work as a strategy.We all have finite time and energy.Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals.And it won’t make us happier.”—Randy Pausch
73. “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
74. “Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life.”–Robert Greene
75. “Extravagance is its own destroyer.”—Zeno of Citium
76. “Love sometimes injures.Friendship always benefits,after friendship is formed you must trust,but before that you must judge.”―Seneca
77. “Having the fewest wants,I am nearest to the gods.”—Socrates
78. “Man is mostly a collection of emotions,most of which he would do better not to be feeling.”―Neel Burton
79. “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face.Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”―Markus Zusak
80. “Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”―Erin Hunter
Inspirational Stoicism quotes:
81. “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be.Be One.”–Marcus Aurelius
82. “You could leave life right now.Let that determine what you do and say and think.”–Marcus Aurelius
83. “He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.”–Seneca
84. “Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past,neglect the present,and fear the future.”–Seneca
85. “How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?”–Epictetus
86. “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”-Epictetus
87. “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.”–Viktor Frankl
88. “Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”—Zeno of Citium
89. “It is not the man who has too little that is poor,but the one who hankers after more.”―Lucius Annaeus Seneca
90. “If it is not right, do not do it,if it is not true,do not say it.”–Marcus Aurelius
Stoicism quotes Latin:
91. “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”—Seneca
92. “Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”—Alessandro Pertini
93. “Problems only exist in the human mind.”—Anthony de Mello
94. “Discomfort is the currency of success.”—Brooke Castillo
95. “Keep your intention pure.Emotions will try to distract you.So keep going.That’s the cure.”—Maxime Lagacé
96. “A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence,pain into transformation,mistakes into initiation,and desire into undertaking.”―Taleb Nassim Nicholas
97. “Be so busy building your own life that other people’s bullshit is of no concern.”—Ed Latimore
98. “In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from.It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given.”—Ryan Holiday
99. “Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb
100. “Common man’s patience will bring him more happiness than common man’s power.”―Amit Kalantri
Stoic quotes on resilience:
101. “Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”―Nora Roberts
102. “In order to protect ourselves,we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason.”―Musonius Rufus
103. “For those who follow nature, everything is easy and straightforward,whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.”–Seneca
104. “We’re never unhappy until we remember why we’re supposed to be unhappy.”―Daniel V Chappell
105. “All vices are at odds with nature.”–Seneca
106. “Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”―Seneca
107. “The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”–Bill Madden
108. “Change: nothing inherently bad in the process,nothing inherently good in the result.”―Marcus Aurelius
109. “Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”―Mokokoma Mokhonoana
110. “When pain comes,it must not derail you from your set virtues.If it does,you have failed to practice your virtues by going with the hype of pain.”―Tiisetso Maloma
Stoicism Quotes about control:
111. Never say that I have taken it,only that I have given it back.”–Epicurus
112. “No man is good by chance.Virtue is something which must be learned.”―Seneca
113. “You have two essential tasks in life: to be a good person and to pursue the occupation that you love.Everything else is a waste of energy and a squandering of your potential.”―Ryan Holiday
114. “For I am not everlasting,but a human being,a part of the whole as an hour is a part of the day.Like an hour I must come,and like an hour pass away.”―Epictetus
115. “Stoicism,in our day,is not strength to overcome wishes,but to hide them.”–Rollo May,‘Love and Will.’
116. “The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time. ”–Marcus Aurelius
117. “They lose the day in expectation of the night,and the night in fear of the dawn. ”–Seneca
118. “There is no better way to grow as a person than to do something you hate every day.”–David Goggins
119. “And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you,the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.”―Seneca
120. “A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant.”—Posidonius
Stoic quotes on restraint:
121. “The man who fights for his ideals is the man who is alive.”–Miguel De Cervantes
122. “Between stimulus and response,there is a space.In that space is our power to choose our response.”–Viktor Frankl
123. “Nothing can affect a person’s mind if he chooses not to be affected by it.”―Cave Man
124. “When you master your mind,you master your thoughts,your habits and your reactions.”–Remez Sasson
125. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”–Viktor Frankl
126. “The more we value things outside our control,the less control we have.”–Epictetus
127. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this,and you will find strength.”–Marcus Aurelius
128. “How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”–Seneca
129. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”–Epictetus
130. “The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant,completely yourself.”–Robert Greene
Stoic quotes on mindfulness:
131. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”–Tim Ferriss
132. “Be a master of the mind,not mastered by the mind.”–Zen proverb
133. “There are two things a person should never be angry at,what they can help,and what they cannot.”–Plato
134. “The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”–Seneca
135. “Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.”–Nassim Nicholas Taleb
136. “What fortune has made yours is not your own.”―Lucius Annaeus Seneca
137. “Suffering adds spice to life.”―Mokokoma Mokhonoana
138. “Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it,to bear those who speak ill of them,is a quality of the highest respect.”―Thiruvalluvar
139. “It would be foolish to be stoical all the time,you’d wear yourself out for nothing”―John-Paul Sartre
140. “Sick and yet happy,in peril and yet happy,dying and yet happy,in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy.”―Epictetus
Stoic quotes that are evanescent:
141. “Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.The twining strands of fate wove both of them together.”–Marcus Aurelius
142. “True affluence is not needing anything.”―Gary Snyder
143. “In each action that you undertake,consider what comes before and what follows after,and only then proceed to the action itself.”–Epictetus
144. “When you give your items away,don’t keep the excess of your pride.”―Bremer Acosta
145. “That which Fortune has not given,she cannot take away.”―Seneca the Younger
146. “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”—Seneca
147. “Understand at last that you have something in you more powerful and divine than what causes the bodily passions and pulls you like a mere puppet.”—Marcus Aurelius
148. “Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation.You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.”—Epictetus
149. “You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger,for they don’t care at all.”—Marcus Aurelius
150. “The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that.”—Marcus Aurelius
Stoic quotes on humility:
151. “If you want to determine the nature of anything,entrust it to time: when the sea is stormy,you can
see nothing clearly.”—Seneca
152. “Man seems to be deficient in nothing so much as he is in time.”—Zeno of Citium.
153. “It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret it’s happening as harmful to me.I can choose not to.”—Marcus Aurelius
154. “An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.”—Cato The Elder
155. “How much more harmful are the consequences of anger and grief than the circumstances that aroused them in us!”—Marcus Aurelius
156. “Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.”—Bertrand Russell
157. “It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.”—Megan Whalen Turner
158. “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”—Marcus Aurelius
159. “Make the best use of what is in your power,and take the rest as it happens.”—Epictetus
160. “You’ve got to figure out what works best for you.That’s the hard part.I know I can’t play as stoic as Hogan,and I can’t talk as much as Trevino.You have to be your own person.”—Tiger Woods
Stoic quotes to motivate you:
161. “I’m a really stoic artist.I’m serious a lot of times.I can joke and play sometimes,but most of the time,I’m stoic.”—LeCrae
162. “Everything we hear is an opinion,not a fact.Everything we see is a perspective,not the truth.”—Marcus Aurelius
163. People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she’s so serious and stoic.I’m the opposite.”—Megan Fox
164. “After a lifetime of nods,frowns and stoic smiles,they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.”—Jamie Ford
165. “As a political spouse,I’ve found that my stoicism often serves me well.”―Jill Biden
166. “An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions.In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.”—Johan Huizinga
167. “Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions,not their elimination.”―Nassim Nicholas Taleb
168. “Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever.What I’m a big believer in is talking about everything until you’re blue in the face.”―David Shields
169. “Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.”―Bergen Evans
170. “It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the bible.”―Richard J. Foster
Stoic quotes to broaden your thoughts:
171. “With patience and calm,persistence and stoicism,good handwriting and careful labeling,they would meet persecution,indignity,and hardship head-on.”―Michael Chabon
172. “The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness,that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.”―Roger Avary
173. “A nation is born stoic and dies epicurean.”―Will Durant
174. “Stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities,only the forces of things as they are.”―Audre Lorde
175. “Being a Stoic does not mean being a robot.Being a Stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.”―Abhijit Naskar
176. “Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”—Marcus Aurelius
177. “Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be.Just be one.”—Marcus Aurelius
178. “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
179. “People are not disturbed by things,but by the views they take of them.”—Marcus Aurelius
180. “Ignorance is the cause of fear.”—Seneca
Stoic quotes on strength:
181. “Think of the life you have lived until now as over and,as a dead man,see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature.Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own,for what could be more fitting?”–Marcus Aurelius
182. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”—Seneca
183. “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
184. “While we wait for life,life passes.”—Seneca
185. “No one entrusts a secret to a drunken man; but one will entrust a secret to a drunken man; therefore,the good man will not get drunk.”―Zeno of Citium
186. “We have two ears and one mouth,so we should listen more than we say.”―Zeno of Citium
187. “The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.”―Zeno of Citium
188. “Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”―Zeno of Citium
189. “If being is many,it must be both like and unlike,and this is impossible,for neither can the like be unlike,nor the unlike like”―Zeno of Citium
190. “When a dog is tied to a cart,if it wants to follow,it is pulled and follows,making its spontaneous act coincide with necessity.”―Zeno of Citium
Stoic quotes to empower you:
191. “All the good are friends of one another.”―Zeno of Citium
192. “A friend is our alter ego”—Zeno of Citium
193. “No loss should be more regrettable to us than losing our time,for it’s irretrievable.”―Zeno of Citium
194. “I am a bit sassy,with some sarcasm thrown into the mix,but stoic at the same time – and brash.”―Mike Daniels
195. “If being is many,it must be both like and unlike,and this is impossible,for neither can the like be unlike,nor the unlike like”―Zeno of Citium
196. “During the Great Depression,the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.”―Maureen Corrigan
197. “Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us,if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”―Mokokoma Mokhonoana
198. “Stoical’ is the best word to describe her reaction to these compliments,Emma putting up with them as if they were one of my unfortunate foibles.”―Carol Lee
199. “Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.”―Maria V.Snyder
200. “Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”―Zeno of Citium
In conclusion,the timeless wisdom encapsulated in Stoic quotes serves as a perennial source of inspiration and guidance for navigating life's trials and triumphs.Through the profound insights of ancient Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius,Seneca,and Epictetus,we find solace,strength,and resilience in the face of adversity.As we reflect on these timeless teachings,let us embrace the Stoic principles of acceptance,virtue,and inner tranquility in our daily lives.May these Stoic quotes continue to inspire and empower us on our journey towards self-discovery and fulfillment.Let the echoes of Stoic wisdom resonate within,guiding us towards a life of meaning and purpose.
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