You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Quote by Marcus Aurelius
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Marcus Aurelius Quotes
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
- Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
- Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
- Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Best Quotes
- Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
- American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
- I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
- I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
- Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
- The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
- God can help man solve all man's problems except man.
- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
- It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.