Quotes About Stoicism

You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.

pero lo sobrellevaba con paciencia y estoicismo.

He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.

Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certain stoical peace in blaming everything on the rain, and then blaming something as uncontrollable as the rain on something as indifferent as the Arm of the Lord.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

How oft when men are at the point of deathHave they been merry!

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other,And I will look on both indifferently.

His was not an easy face to read, and no one could have told that in the past half hour he had suffered the worst knock of his life. Except that he no longer whistled into the wind or talked to his irritable mare, there was nothing to show.

I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Never complain, even if you are in great pain.

SIR FREDERICK FROWN

Nec quererer, si etiam in tormentis'. Translate that from the Latin, boy!

But it was just crying. She didn't get hysterical. She didn't fall apart.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune, " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Intelligence forbids tears.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

I bend but do not break.

My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.

It was simply the unalterable truth: unfortunate but upon us; and so it had to be borne.