Marcus Aurelius Quotes & Sayings

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”

“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.”

“Do everything at the right time, and one day will seem like three.”

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

“A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”

“Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.”

“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.”

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

“Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.”

“Nothing happens to anyone that they are not fitted by nature to bear.”

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

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

“The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.”

“Learn as if you always lack knowledge and as if you are always afraid of losing it.”

“We live only now. Everything else is either past or unknown.”

“For my part, I think that to a man of spirit there is no other aim and end of his labours except the labours themselves.”

“We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”