150 Famous Marcus Aurelius Quotes and Sayings On Life, Attitude

Famous Marcus Aurelius Quotes

♥ “Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “A man when he has done a good act does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “People exist for one another. You can instruct or endure them.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “A man should be upright, not be kept upright.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Kindness is invincible.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Nothing happens to anyone that he can’t endure.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “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.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind. And if that isn’t good enough for you, the door stands open; otherwise, put up with it. The door needs to stay open whatever the circumstances, with the result that our problems disappear.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Men exist for the sake of one another.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Confine yourself to the present.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Nothing should be done without a purpose.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Glory’s an empty, changeable thing, as fickle as the weather.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “From my brother Severus to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able – be good.” — Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Quotes On Life

♥ “Do every act of your life as if it were your last.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Our life is what our thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “In the same degree in which a man’s mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “First, do nothing inconsiderately or without a purpose. Second, make your acts refer to nothing else but a social end.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Speaking for myself, I hope death overtakes me when I’m occupied solely with the care of my character, in an effort to make it passionless, free, unrestricted, and unrestrained.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The rational animal is consequently also a social animal.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “If you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don’t like doing something, make a habit of doing something different. The same goes for moral inclinations. When you get angry, you should know that you aren’t guilty of an isolated lapse, you’ve encouraged a trend and thrown fuel on the fire.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “A rock is thrown in the air. It loses nothing by coming down, gained nothing by going up.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “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.’” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “In your actions, don’t procrastinate, In your conversations, don’t confuse, In your thoughts, don’t wander, In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive, In your life, don’t be all about business.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The first step: Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but recon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Because most of what we say and do is not essential. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Death is not an evil. What is it then? The one law mankind has that is free of all discrimination.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “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. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “For God’s sake, stop honoring externals, quit turning yourself into the tool of mere matter, or of people who can supply you or deny you those material things.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “How soon will time cover all things?” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left, and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Each day provides its own gifts.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Quotes Death

♥ “To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Think continually that all kinds of men, pursuits, and nations are dead.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Make sure you’re not made ‘Emperor,’ avoid that imperial stain. It can happen to you, so keep yourself simple, good, pure, saintly, plain, a friend of justice, god-fearing, gracious, affectionate, and strong for your proper work.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting if you bear in mind that it has its limits, and if you add nothing to it in imagination.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Be content to seem what you really are. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “That which isn’t good for the hive isn’t good for the bee.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “True good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, good actions.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Death and pain are not frightening, it’s the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, ‘Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.’” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “To be angry at something means you’ve forgotten: That everything that happens is natural. That the responsibility is theirs, not yours.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Everything that happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “You can commit injustice by doing nothing.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “What we do now echoes in eternity.” — Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Quotes On Love

♥ “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.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend’s accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind himself.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Someone despises me. That’s their problem.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “To accept without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “If a man is mistaken, instruct him kindly and show him his error. But if you are not able, blame yourself, or not even yourself.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Each of us needs what nature gives us when nature gives it. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “That no one could ever have felt patronized by him – or in a position to patronize him. A sense of humor.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “About death: Whether it is a dispersion, or a resolution into atoms, or annihilation, it is either extinction or change.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “When another blames you or hates you, or when men say anything injurious about you, approach their poor souls, penetrate within, and see what kind of men they are. You will discover that there is no reason to be concerned that these men have this or that opinion about you.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “We live only now. Everything else is either passed or is unknown. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact, Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” — Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Quotes On Work

♥ “To have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Every part of me then will be reduced by change into some part of the universe, and that again will change into another part of the universe, and so on forever.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Nothing natural is evil. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Life is short – the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Let each thing you would do, say, or intend, be like that of a dying person.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Here is a rule to remember in the future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not “This is a misfortune,” but “To bear this worthily is good fortune.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgments concerning them. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Anger cannot be dishonest.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair. But I will be mild and benevolent toward every man, and ready to show even him his mistake, not reproachfully, nor yet as making a display of my endurance, but nobly and honestly.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.” — Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Quotes On Success

♥ “The universe is transformation: life is opinion.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “To live happily is an inward power of the soul.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “It loved to happen.” — 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” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective? – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Quotes On War

♥ “The act of dying is one of the acts of life.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have. – Marcus Aurelius” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.” — Marcus Aurelius

♥ “No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.” — Marcus Aurelius