Marcus Aurelius Antoninus quotes and words of wisdom

"Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved."
Found in the topic Suffer.

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
Found in the topic Anger.

"At day"s first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man.""
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"The passing minute is every man"s equal possession but what has once gone by is no longer ours."
Found in the topic Time.

"In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: "I am rising to a man"s work.""
Found in the topic Bed.

"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."
Found in the topic Habit.

"A man"s life is what his thoughts make of it. Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Found in the topic Life.

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
Found in the topic Begin.

"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; But if anything is within the powers and province of man, Believe that it is within your own compass also."
Found in the topic Impossible.

"How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life."
Found in the topic Astonish.

"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
Found in the topic Mind.

"Poverty is the mother of crime."
Found in the topic Crime.

"A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something."
Found in the topic Deeds.

"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."
Found in the topic Good.

"Life is a warfare and a stranger"s sojourn, and after fame is oblivion."
Found in the topic False.

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
Found in the topic Needs.

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
Found in the topic Acceptance.

"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. Of the things you have, select the best: and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought if you did not have them."
Found in the topic Envy.

"Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear."
Found in the topic Endure.

"Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours."
Found in the topic Yourself.

Interesting Quotes

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.Charles Buxton

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.Frank Herbert - US science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986)