Quotes About Stoicism

Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?

We in a nasty business, at times. I don't even say that in a good or bad way. It's just no place to get too emotional.

We do not 'suffer,'" said Garad. "We endure.

Jacques straightened slowly, as if he had been waiting for hours. His hand went to the nape of his neck, rubbing at a kink. Mikhail and Jacques stared at one another, dark sorrow in their eyes. Jacques stepped forward and reached for Mikhail in an uncharacteristic show of affection. It was brief and hard, two stiff oak trees exchanging a hug. Mikhail knew Raven would have laughed at the two of them.

I asked him if the thought of annihilation never gave him any uneasiness. He said not the least; no more than the thought that he had not been, as Lucretius observes.

About to be hanged is my status quo, not a condition that requires your repair.

It was naught but a flesh wound.

Nothing could be avoided, and nothing could be foreseen. What was the point of unnecessary fear?

lady should find a way to solve her problems without complaint.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

In bad luck hold out; in good luck, hold in

Tu dubiti se ci sia lecito di morire senza necessità: io ti domando se ci è lecito di essere infelici. ( Dialogo di Plotino e di Porfirio )

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

he insisted was but a scratch.  Deirdre wondered at the

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

tüm s?radan ac?lara kar?? duyars?zlaÅŸt?.

He was never disturbed over why a thing happened.  How it happened was sufficient for him. 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

It is very important to grasp that Level 5 leadership is not just about humility and modesty. It is equally about ferocious resolve, an almost stoic determination to do whatever needs to be done to make the company great.

I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

Want to come one step closer to wisdom? Then you have to train yourself unconditionally in forbearance.

As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.