Quotes About Stoicism

Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

Animals never cry. They don't go to pieces and call somebody and go through a box of Kleenex an hour.

Mrs. Plackett did not believe in letting emotion show. Keep yourself to yourself had always been her motto.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.

You can't worry about things you have no control over.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

it means resignation, madam, the first of all the virtues.

Dantès n'avait point changé de place. Une main de fer semblait l'avoir cloué à l'endroit où la veille il s'était arrêté: seulement son oeil profond se cachait sous une enflure causée par la vapeur humide de ses larmes. Il était immobile et regardait la terre.

The marquise heard her sentence without showing any sign of fear or weakness. When it was finished, she said to the registrar, "Will you, sir, be so kind as to read it again? I had not expected the tumbril, and I was so much struck by that that I lost the thread of what followed.

Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile.

You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? 'Never complain, never explain.

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion

Cairm Ironhead was a very different prospect. His scar-crossed face was a fortress of frown you could've blunted an axe on, eyes like nails under a brow like an anvil, cropped hair and beard an uncompromising black.