Quotes About Stoicism

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Nu, nu, do as you must, her patient replied, as if her entire existence was but an endless series of pushbacks and rejections.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, 'Oh, nothing!' Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts – not to hurt others.

There is no more to be said. Things cannot be altered, and who cares? It makes no difference to any one else what we do. We must try not to care ourselves. We must not give way. I dread giving way. Help me to he quiet.

I've fought in front of thousands of people and never responded to the crowd. I got there, did my job, and left.

I think I have got a decent pain threshold.

I'm quite laid-back but some people say I'm unemotional. I don't get carried away with success and similarly I don't get depressed when something bad happens. I didn't take it personally when rival fans threw banana skins at me when I was playing for Liverpool. I can't control 50,000 idiots shouting at me, so why would it bother me?

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

What can't be cured must be endured.

The great principal of being happy in this world is not to mind or be affected with small things

Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded – not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for sale, their ankles manacled. She might as well have been walking through a country garden as she moved inexorably away from the water.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

Practicaba en secreto una vida austera de la que nadie tenía idea. Pero el largo aprendizaje del deber estoico no lo había endurecido en una actitud de falsa sabiduría; era demasiado fino como para no haberse apercibido de que los extremos de la virtud se asemejan a los del amor en que su mérito proviene precisamente de su rareza, de su condición de obra maestra única, de hermoso exceso.

Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you'? The wise words

Un hombre que sufre antes de que sea necesario, sufre más de lo necesario. SÉNECA

that a man should force himself to endure anything that might be sent upon him, not only without outward grumbling, but also without grumbling inwardly.

We know the story of the Spartan boy who held the fox under his tunic. The fox was biting him into the very entrails, but the young hero spoke never a word. Now, Bessy Garrow was inclined to think that it was a good thing to have a fox always biting, so that the torment caused no ruffle to her outward smiles. Now, at this moment the fox within her bosom was biting her sore enough, but she bore it without flinching.

He was incapable of anticipating to-morrow's griefs.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.