Quotes About Stoicism

Instead of meeting misfortune with groans and tears, I will call upon the faculty especially provided to deal with it.

Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

All are stoics in the grave.

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

I don't take praise or criticism seriously.

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.

There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

and it was said that the soldiers "all had the same expression because they had no expression at all.

What cannot be cured must be endured.

Be like a slippery ball that cannot be held: Let no one know what gets to you, or where your weaknesses like.

Be like a slippery ball that cannot be held: Let no one know what gets to you, or where your weaknesses lie.

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity. Not merely to endure that which happens of necessity . . . but to love it. — FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

that virtue is sufficient for happiness, that nothing except virtue is good, and that the emotions are not to be trusted—

What can't be changed must be endured.

What could not be changed must be endured.

legalább maradj talpon, úgy fogadd el az elkerülhetetlent. (...)

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose

when the punishment was sufficient. Even as a boy Boone showed the stoicism

Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high.

If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.

When things broke down, one kept moving, for to stop was to signal the end. To complain was to waste breath. To fuss was a luxury.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.