Stoic Quotes

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

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

“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.”

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.”

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

“Choose not to be harmed — and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed — and you haven't been.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“He who is brave is free.”

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”

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

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

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

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

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”

“The more you value things outside your control, the less control you have.”

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”