Quotes About Stoicism

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. It is best to bear what can't be altered. SENECA

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

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

I do not listen to criticism or flattery, one weakens you and the other angers you.

I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don't show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to take it one pitch at a time.

Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.

I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.

My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

How do I comfort myself? Well, I say, 'Life is just like that.'

I don't complain.

Russians don't complain, usually.

I don't like to complain.

I work hard, I don't complain.

Something I think that I'm good at is that I don't complain.

My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power;

Always to seek to conquer myself rather than fortune, to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to believe that nothing except our thoughts is wholly under our control, so that after we have done our best in external matters, what remains to be done is absolutely impossible, at least as far as we are concerned.

There are no tears here," the young construction worker said at the funeral, when the ancient union leader, with two strokes, three heart attacks, and a lung condition, died at last. "True," the priest said, surveying the mourners in the cathedral. "No tears. Either the wake went on too long or he was a hard, hard man.

Some day, Archie, I shall be constrained Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but no. I cannot remake the universe, and must therefore put up with this one. What is, is, including you." He

Hay hombres sobrios y aplomados, a los que la desgracia los quiebra por adentro, sin que se vea.

It is from time to time the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself

I tried not to let these things affect me. They affected me quickly and obviously.

I remember something Marcus Aurelius used to tell his son, a quote that later became famous in his Meditations book: Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

There was no point moping around when you faced imminent death.

Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you