Quotes About Stoicism

I've always prided myself on my lack of panting and sniffing.

I did my best not to think about it. Only a fool worries over what he can't control.

The door sat still as a mountain, quiet and indifferent as the sea on a windless day.

Better to wait quietly in their corner, they think, than to be dashed against the stones.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Que tanto gusto había en quejarse, un filósofo decía, que, a trueco de quejarse, habían las desdichas de buscarse.

It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The Battle of Maldon' where the most famous Saxon or English cry has been rendered - 'Courage must be the firmer, heart the bolder, spirit must be the greater, as our strength grows less'. That combination of bravery and fatalism, endurance and understatement, is the defining mood of Arhurian legend.