33 Stoic Quotes That Will Help You Conquer Your Toughest Days
Stoicism is the best philosophy to adopt as a way of living,
especially in our time when people are reactive
and emotional maturity is dying.
There is a false dogma about Stoicism where people think
that to be Stoic means to abandon your emotions
and feelings completely.
To be stoic means to accept your emotions
and never let them influence you.
That’s strength and emotional maturity because a person
who can control their emotions is very powerful.
I collected these 33 Stoic quotes to help you in that quest
and become a more stoic person.
Here are the 33 Stoic Quotes That Will Help You Conquer Your Toughest Days:
1. I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.
CARL JUNG
2. Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
EPICTETUS
3. No loss should be more regrettable to us than losing our time, for it is irretrievable.
ZENO OF CITIUM
4. Pleasures can become punishments when taken beyond a certain point.
MARCUS AURELIUS
5. In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOW
6. Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
MARCUS AURELIUS
7. The only thing that you truly can control is where you place your attention and where you place your effort.
ANDREW HUBERMAN
8. Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
EPICTETUS
9. No man is free who cannot control himself.
PYTHAGORAS
10. Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
SAADI SHIRAZI
11. Expectations are the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, we lose today.
SENECA
12. You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
13. He who dares to shed the weight of expectation shall find himself soaring above the shackles of mediocrity.
UNKNOWN
14. You become what you give your attention to. If you don’t choose what you expose yourself to, someone else will.
EPICTETUS
15. There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
ELBERT HUBBARD
16. Our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
17. You cannot hope to make progress in areas where you have taken no action.
EPICTETUS
18. Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.
MARK TWAIN
19. Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
LOUIS HOLTZ
20. Overnight success takes decades of daily work.
PAULO COELHO
21. Everything you have ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
GEORGE ADAIR
22. The body should be treated more rigorously, so that it may not be disobedient to the mind.
SENECA
23. What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
TIM FERRISS
24. Another person cannot hurt you without your cooperation; you are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.
EPICTETUS
25. Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.
EPICTETUS
26. Comparison is the thief of joy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
27. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. True nobility is in being superior to your former self.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
28. I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
MARK TWAIN
29. How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
EPICTETUS
30. I do what is mine to do; the rest does not disturb me.
MARCUS AURELIUS
31. Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
MARK TWAIN
32. When setting out on a journey, never seek advice from those who have never left home.
RUMI
33. Settle on the type of person you want to be and stick to it, whether alone or in company.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Bonus: He who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
SENECA
Also, read: 33 Deep Quotes That Will Open Your Mind to New Possibilities
