🔸 30 Stoic Quotes for Mental Strength “You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ...
🔸 30 Stoic Quotes for Mental Strength
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“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
— Marcus Aurelius -
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
— Epictetus -
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
— Seneca -
“He who angers you conquers you.”
— Elizabeth Kenny (Stoic-inspired) -
“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.”
— Marcus Aurelius -
“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
— Epictetus -
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
— Marcus Aurelius -
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
— Marcus Aurelius -
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
— Epictetus -
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
— Seneca -
“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”
— Epictetus -
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
— Marcus Aurelius -
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
— Seneca -
“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
— Marcus Aurelius -
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
— Epictetus -
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
— Epictetus -
“You become what you give your attention to.”
— Epictetus -
“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”
— Epictetus -
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
— Seneca -
“To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.”
— Zen proverb (Stoic-aligned) -
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
— Seneca -
“Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.”
— Epictetus -
“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess.”
— Marcus Aurelius -
“He who is brave is free.”
— Seneca -
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus -
“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place.”
— Marcus Aurelius -
“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”
— Seneca -
“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”
— Marcus Aurelius -
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
— Epictetus -
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
— Seneca
