Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Life, Death, Stoicism and Leadership

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

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Confine yourself to the present.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

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.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

One universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.