66 The Best Stoic Quotes

1. "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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2. "To be evenminded is the greatest virtue." (Heraclitus) Click to tweet

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3. "Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have." (Epictetus) Click to tweet

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4. "The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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5. "The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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6. "It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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7. "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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8. "To be calm is the highest achievement of the self." (Zen Proverb) Click to tweet

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9. "He has the most who is content with the least." (Diogenes) Click to tweet

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10. "Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power." (James Allen) Click to tweet

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11. "Man conquers the world by conquering himself." (Zeno of Citium) Click to tweet

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12. "Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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13. "To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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14. "The willing are led by fate, the reluctant dragged." (Cleanthes) Click to tweet

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15. "Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

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16. "A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

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17. "If you are easily provoked you are easily controlled."Click to tweet

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18. "Be an island of calm in the sea of craziness."Click to tweet

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19. "Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have." (Paul Graham) Click to tweet

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20. "Be a master of the mind, not mastered by the mind." (Zen Proverb) Click to tweet

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21. "The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable." (Conor McGregor) Click to tweet

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22. "Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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23. "If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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24. "Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response." (Viktor E. Frankl) Click to tweet

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25. "To be stoic is not to be emotionless, but to remain unaffected by your emotions." (James Pierce) Click to tweet

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26. "When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval." (Epictetus) Click to tweet

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27. "Success is based off of your willingness to work your ass off no matter what obstacles are in your way." (David Goggins) Click to tweet

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28. "If you make happiness your goal, you’ll be disappointed. If you make presence your goal, you’ll be satisfied." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet

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29. "To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet

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30. "The great law of nature is that it never stops. There is no end." (Ryan Holiday) Click to tweet

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31. "The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

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32. "That one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backwards, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it… but love it." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet

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33. "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) Click to tweet

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34. "The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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35. "The wise man is neither raised up by prosperity nor cast down by adversity; for always he has striven to rely predominantly on himself, and to derive all joy from himself." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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36. "Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) Click to tweet

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37. "I love to go and see all the things i am happy without." (Socrates) Click to tweet

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38. "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief." (Othello) Click to tweet

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39. "Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet

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40. "A stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet

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41. "Stoicism teaches how to keep a calm and rational mind no matter what happens to you and it helps you understand and focus on what you can control and not worry about and accept what you can’t control." (Jonas Salzgeber) Click to tweet

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42. "Stoicism, understood properly, is a cure for a disease. The disease in question is the anxiety, grief, fear, and various other negative emotions that plague humans and prevent them from experiencing a joyful existence." (William B. Irvine) Click to tweet

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43. "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be, be one." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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44. "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet

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45. "The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred." (Dalai Lama) Click to tweet

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46. "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." (Epictetus) Click to tweet

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47. "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." (Epictetus) Click to tweet

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48. "What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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49. "You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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50. "When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people i deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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51. "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." (Viktor E. Frankl) Click to tweet

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52. "Many men will meet me who are drunkards, lustful, ungrateful, greedy, and excited by the frenzy of ambition." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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53. "Set aside a certain number of days during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while, “is this the condition that i feared?”" (Seneca) Click to tweet

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54. "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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55. "?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." (Voltaire) Click to tweet

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56. "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." (William James) Click to tweet

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57. "What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet

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58. "The things you own end up owning you." (Joshua Fields Millburn) Click to tweet

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59. "Is there such a thing as a cheerful pessimist? That’s what i am." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

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60. "It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is." (Bruce Lee) Click to tweet

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61. "The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is so we might listen more and talk less." (Zeno of Citium) Click to tweet

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62. "I begin to speak only when i’m certain what i’ll say isn’t better left unsaid." (Cato The Younger) Click to tweet

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63. "If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?" (Rumi) Click to tweet

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64. "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet

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65. "Nothing endures but change." (Heraclitus) Click to tweet

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66. "Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?" (Socrates) Click to tweet

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