Quotes About Stoicism

I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

It is not things themselves that trouble us," wrote Epictetus, a first-century Greek philosopher, "but our thoughts about those things.

He who submits to fate without complaint is wise.

All the questions, all the speculation, No. 2 driver and so on, it doesn't get to me. It doesn't matter.

Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.