To spend one’s life without informing anyone of any kind of feeling and pain is called Stoic. Be it sorrow or happiness, it is stoic to live without informing anyone. There are many benefits of being a stoic as your focus is increased, you do not take wrong decisions when you get into emotions. But being a stoic can also have social disadvantages. Wisdom, justice, courage and restraint are the four qualities that are seen in a stoic. Here we have come up with some of the best stoic quotes that will help you to live life in a different way. These stoic quotes are about love, life, anxiety, death and happiness.
Stoic Quotes
- “A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.”-Naval Ravikant
- “And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “All vices are at odds with nature.”-Seneca
- “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”-Seneca
- “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”-Seneca
- “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”-Seneca
- “Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”-Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”-Seneca
- “Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself”.-Marcus Aurelius
- “Be so busy building your own life that other people’s… is of no concern.”-Ed Latimore
- “Change: nothing inherently bad in the process, nothing inherently good in the result.”-Marcus
- “Discomfort is the currency of success.”-Brooke Castillo
- “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”-Seneca
- “Don’t aim to be perfect. Aim to be antifragile.”-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- “Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”-William Barclay
- “Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”- Rick Riordan
- “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious.”-Carl Sagan, ‘Cosmos.
- “Failures are finger post s on the road to achievement.”- C.S. Lewis
- “For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.”-Epictetus
- “He is most powerful who has power over himself.”-Seneca
- “How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”-Seneca
- “He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.”-Seneca
- “In a little while you will have forgotten everything; in a little while everything will have forgotten you.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.”- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”-Charles Bukowski
- “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
- “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
- “In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “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
- “It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise, it cannot harm you — inside or out.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.”-Seneca”
- “It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”-Senec
- “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. “-Seneca
- “If it does, you have failed to practice your virtues by going with the hype of pain.”-Tiisetso Maloma
- “Ignorance is the cause of fear.”-Seneca
- “I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”-Seneca
- “It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.”-Seneca
- “I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.”-Cato
- “If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “It’s far better to seem like a downer than to be blindsided or caught off guard.”-Ryan Holiday
- “If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”-Seneca
- “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”-Seneca
- “It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.”-Seneca
- “Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.”-Marcus Aurelius”
- “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”- Aristotle
- “Knowing others is intelligence, Knowing yourself is true wisdom.”- Lao Tzu
- “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”- Jimi Hendrix
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- “Learn to detach yourself from the chaos of the battlefield.”-Robert Greene
- “Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”-Seneca
- “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”-Seneca
“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”-Seneca
- “Make the mind tougher by exposing it to adversity.”–Robert Greene
- “Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”-Zeno of Citium
- “Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so life.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”-Seneca
- “No human thing is of serious importance.”-Plato
- “Order your soul. Reduce your wants.”-Augustine of Hippo”
- “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”-Albert Einstein
- “Problems only exist in the human mind.”-Anthony de Mello
“Respect the past, be open to the future”-Seneca
- “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”-Seneca
- “Stoicism is designed to be medicine for the soul.”-Ryan Holiday
- “Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.”-Bergen Evans
- “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”-James Allen
- “She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.”-Gillian Flynn
- “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”-Steve Jobs
- “Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”-Alessandro Pertini
- “Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”-Colleen Hoover
- “Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them.”-Rollo May
- “Stay calm and serene regardless of what life throws at you.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “To be even minded is the greatest virtue.”-Heraclitus
- “The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.”-Othello
- This is our big mistake: to think we look forward to death. Most of death is already gone.
- “The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”-Seneca
- “There is no genius without a touch of madness.”- Seneca
- “The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”-Seneca
- “Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.”-Greg McKeown, ‘Essentialism
- “To be stoic is not to be emotionless, but to remain unaffected by your emotions.”- James Pierce
“The great law of nature is that it never stops. There is no end.”-Ryan Holiday
- “The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”-Seneca
- “The limit is not the sky. The limit is the mind.”-Wim Hof
- “To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “That man is happy, whose reason recommends to him the whole posture of his affairs.”-Seneca
- “The willing are led by fate, the reluctant dragged.”-Cleanthes
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”- Oprah Winfrey
- “The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.”-Mary Catherwood
- “That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.”-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn. “-Seneca
- “There is no better way to grow as a person than to do something you hate every day.”-David Goggins
- “Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”-Marcus Aurelius
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- “To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony. “-Marcus Aurelius
- “The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time. “-Marcus Aurelius
- “The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.”-Robert Greene
- “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”-Marcus Aurelius
- highest achievement of the self.”-Zen proverb
- “Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”-Voltaire
- “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”-Seneca
- “Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”-Erin Hunter
- “What’s the good of being stoical if nobody notices?”-Mason Cooley.
- “Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.”-Seneca
- Whatever time has passed is owned by death.”-Seneca
- “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be, be one.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.”-Seneca
- “Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.”-Seneca
- “When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”-Lao Tzu
- “What injures the hive injures the bee.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “Wealth is the slave of the wise. The master of the fool.”-Seneca
- “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”-Seneca
- “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”-Viktor Frankl
- “Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.”-Marcus Aurelius
- “We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.”-Seneca
- “You will find no one willing to share out his money; but to how many does each of us divide up his life!”-Seneca
- “Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”-Shannon L. Alder
- “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”-Marcus Aurelius
