Marcus Aurelius Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Marcus Aurelius quotes, Marcus Aurelius sayings, and Marcus Aurelius proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions. Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius
Don't let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of you life depends on the quality of your thoughts. Marcus Aurelius
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. Marcus Aurelius
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. Marcus Aurelius
The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not. Marcus Aurelius
Remember the sole life which one can lose is that which he is living at the moment. Marcus Aurelius
Our universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius
Look 'round at the courses of the stars, as if thou were going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life. Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius
I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people. Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius
How to live the good life? The ability is in your soul, as long as it remains unattached to things that are morally neutral to it. And the soul will remain unattached if it carefully scrutinizes each of these neutral things both as a whole, and by separation into the elements that compose them. Remember that none of these things are responsible for creating our conception about them; these things are motionless and so can't even approach us. It is we ourselves who create ideas about things, and, as we might say, drag them inside ourselves. It is in our power not to include them, and even if these conceptions have unconsciously gained admission to our minds, to erase them. Marcus Aurelius
Look well into yourself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if you will always look there. Marcus Aurelius
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in yourself. Marcus Aurelius
Everything is fitting for me, my universe, which fits thy purpose. Nothing in its good time is too early or too late for me; everything is fruit for me which thy seasons, Nature, bear; from thee, in thee, to thee, are all things. Marcus Aurelius
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius
Don't let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don't fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it's so unbearable and can't be survived. Marcus Aurelius
You wear a watch to keep on schedule. You buy books on time management. And complain that you're so busy you just don't have enough time in the day. Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. Marcus Aurelius
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. Marcus Aurelius