Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• 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”

• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

• To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  People, Understanding, Mind

  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.214

• The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Positive Thinking, Color, Soul

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.59, Modern Library

• When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Encouragement, Thinking, People

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.80, Modern Library

• Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Honesty, Pain, Humility

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.48, Modern Library

• Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Missing, Quality, Looks

• Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Gratitude, Quality, Looks

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

• Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Kindness, Quality, Common

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (9), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

• Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Thinking, Soul, Quality

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1701). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself”, p.74

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