Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Greatness, Men

• Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Jobs, Mean, Purpose

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

• People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

  Marcus Aurelius

  People, Purpose, Impulse

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.110, Modern Library

• How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Spiritual, Pain, Lying

• Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Purpose, Done, Should

• Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Nature, Opportunity, May

• From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Atheism, Looks, Purpose

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.7, Enhanced Media Publishing

• Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Men, Atheism

  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.22, Lulu.com

• Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.

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  Creating, Soul, Together

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

• To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

  Marcus Aurelius

  School, Home, Advice

• Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

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  Horse, Purpose, Vines

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.104, Modern Library

• Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Moving, Views, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

• Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

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  Goal, Raw Materials, Purpose

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.221, Modern Library

• God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fate, Law, Purpose

• Let no act be done without purpose.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Purpose, Done

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.38, Enhanced Media Publishing

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