Marcus Aurelius Inspirational Quotes

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• Our life is what our thoughts make it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).
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  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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

• Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193

• You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

• The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Revenge, Hatred

• If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.72, Lulu.com

• Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Empathy, Faults

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

• Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Smile, Uplifting

• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

• The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

• Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Goes On, Good Person

• Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Self Confidence

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.50, Enhanced Media Publishing

• Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Character, Soul

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.20, Lulu.com

• Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

• Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Water, Cliffs

  Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

• Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Leadership, Talking

• Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Destiny

• Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Failure

• It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Self, Personality

• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Running, Horse

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

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