34 Wise Stoic Quotes

1. "Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one." (Voltaire) Click to tweet

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2. "The phrase that i use the most to myself in my head is one word: accept." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

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3. "A man is no bigger than the smallest thing that provokes him." (Dan Horton) Click to tweet

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4. "Some can delay gratification. Others don’t seek it at all. Be the latter." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet

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5. "Learn to detach yourself from the chaos of the battlefield." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

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6. "Welcome if it comes. Let go if it goes. Chase nothing. Cling to nothing. Remain unconcerned."Click to tweet

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7. "Wisdom lies in cheerful acceptance of whatever life throws at you."Click to tweet

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8. "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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9. "Don’t allow yourself to be heard any longer griping about public life, not even with your own ears!" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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10. "Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet

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11. "The wise man listens to meaning, the fool only gets the noise." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet

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12. "Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behaviour, not because they won or lost." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet

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13. "No one is asking you to look at the world through rose-colored glasses." (Ryan Holiday) Click to tweet

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14. "Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second." (Greg McKeown) Click to tweet

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15. "You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything." (Greg McKeown) Click to tweet

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16. "True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

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17. "Short-term thinking makes people desperate, ungenerous, impulsive. Long-term thinking makes people calm, gracious, controlled."Click to tweet

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18. "The wise man needs nothing and yet he can make good use of anything, whereas the fool ‘needs’ countless things but can make good use of none of them." (Donald J. Robertson) Click to tweet

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19. "Not to assume it’s impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it’s humanly possible, you can do it too." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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20. "“what is the work of a master?” Said a solemn-faced visitor. “to teach people to laugh,” said the master gravely." (Anthony de Mello) Click to tweet

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21. "Understand what you can control and what you can’t. Forget about the things you can’t control and put that energy into the things you can control." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet

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22. "We must take a higher view of all things, and bear with them more easily: it better becomes a man to scoff at life than to lament over it." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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23. "The world might call you a pessimist. Who cares? It’s far better to seem like a downer than to be blindsided or caught off guard." (Ryan Holiday) Click to tweet

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24. "The news allows you to dedicate massive amounts of energy and attention to things you probably cannot impact while the things you can impact go unaddressed."Click to tweet

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25. "Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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26. "Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the mountains… nowhere can a man find a retreat more peaceful or more free from trouble than his own soul." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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27. "Objective judgment, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance – now at this very moment – of all external events. That’s all you need." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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28. "Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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29. "Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."Click to tweet

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30. "Show me someone for whom success is less important than the manner in which it is achieved. Of concern for the means, rather than the ends, of their actions… i want to see him. This is the person i have looked for a long time, the true genius." (Epictetus) Click to tweet

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31. "You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

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32. "Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

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33. "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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34. "He who laughs at the human race deserves better of it than he who mourns for it, for the former leaves it some good hopes of improvement, while the latter stupidly weeps over what he has given up all hopes of mending." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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