159 Famous Quotes by Seneca about Anxiety Quotes and other
1. "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, for he that is wants nothing." (Anxiety Quotes) Click to tweet
2. "Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s." (Anxiety Quotes) Click to tweet
3. "But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future." (Anxiety Quotes) Click to tweet
4. "They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn." (Anxiety Quotes) Click to tweet
5. "The life of folly is empty of gratitude, full of anxiety: it is focused wholly on the future." (Anxiety Quotes) Click to tweet
6. "There is nothing that the busy man is less busy with than living; there is nothing harder to learn." (Anxiety Quotes) Click to tweet
7. "Hecato says, “cease to hope and you will cease to fear”. [… ] the primary cause of both these ills is that instead of adapting ourselves to present circumstances we send out thoughts too far ahead." (Anxiety Quotes) Click to tweet
8. "Ignorance is the cause of fear." (Anxiety Quotes) Click to tweet
9. "The fact that the body is lying down is no reason for supposing that the mind is at peace. Rest is sometimes far from restful." (Anxiety Quotes) Click to tweet
10. "All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way." (Anxiety Quotes) Click to tweet
11. "If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes." (Being Strong Quotes) Click to tweet
12. "Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." (Being Strong Quotes) Click to tweet
13. "Your good fortune is not to need good fortune." (Being Strong Quotes) Click to tweet
14. "Whatever can happen at any time can happen today." (Being Strong Quotes) Click to tweet
15. "The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain." (Best Quotes) Click to tweet
16. "It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable, wise from experience, calm in action, showing the while much courtesy and consideration in intercourse with others." (Best Quotes) Click to tweet
17. "Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more." (Best Quotes) Click to tweet
18. "No state is so bitter than a calm mind cannot find in it some consolation." (Calm Quotes) Click to tweet
19. "To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden." (Calm Quotes) Click to tweet
20. "Accept what is necessary with a calm spirit. What happens that is new or beyond belief?" (Calm Quotes) Click to tweet
21. "Many words have been spoken by plato, zeno, chrysippus, posidonius, and by a whole host of equally excellent stoics. I’ll tell you how people can prove their words to be their own – by putting into practice what they’ve been preaching." (Character Quotes) Click to tweet
22. "You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise." (Character Quotes) Click to tweet
23. "Misfortune is virtue’s opportunity." (Character Quotes) Click to tweet
24. "It is not to your benefit to see and hear everything. Many injuries ought to pass over us; if you ignore them, you get no more injury from them." (Character Quotes) Click to tweet
25. "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." (Character Quotes) Click to tweet
26. "Accept in an unruffled spirit that which is inevitable." (Character Quotes) Click to tweet
27. "You may be sure that you are at peace with yourself when no noise reaches you, when no word shakes you out of yourself." (Character Quotes) Click to tweet
28. "A man must become reconciled to his lot, must complain of it as little as possible, and must lay hold of whatever good it may had." (Character Quotes) Click to tweet
29. "It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it." (Character Quotes) Click to tweet
30. "Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak." (Character Quotes) Click to tweet
31. "A king is one who fears nothing." (Courage Quotes) Click to tweet
32. "Accept in an unruffled spirit that which is inevitable." (Courage Quotes) Click to tweet
33. "Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence." (Courage Quotes) Click to tweet
34. "One who asks fearfully teaches us to say no." (Courage Quotes) Click to tweet
35. "Nobody learns what he can do except by trying." (Courage Quotes) Click to tweet
36. "Do not stumble on something behind you." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
37. "The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
38. "You learn to know a pilot in a storm." (Education Quotes) Click to tweet
39. "That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned." (Education Quotes) Click to tweet
40. "As long as you live, keep learning how to live." (Education Quotes) Click to tweet
41. "The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." (Education Quotes) Click to tweet
42. "Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing." (Famous Quotes) Click to tweet
43. "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, for he that is wants nothing." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
44. "All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re travelling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
45. "He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
46. "Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet 47. "To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
48. "Show me a man who isn’t a slave; one who is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
49. "The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
50. "Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
51. "You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
52. "Hecato says, ‘cease to hope and you will cease to fear.’… the primary cause of both these ills is that instead of adapting ourselves to present circumstances we send out thoughts too far ahead." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
53. "How does it help… to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?" (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
54. "They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
55. "A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
56. "We suffer more in imagination than in reality." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
57. "Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all, – the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet." (Fear Quotes) Click to tweet
58. "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." (Friendship Quotes) Click to tweet
59. "It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it." (Happiness Quotes) Click to tweet
60. "A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is." (Happiness Quotes) Click to tweet
61. "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." (Hard Work Quotes) Click to tweet
62. "The wish for healing has always been half of health." (Health Quotes) Click to tweet
63. "It is part of the cure to want to be cured." (Health Quotes) Click to tweet
64. "Injustice never rules forever." (Hope Quotes) Click to tweet
65. "Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got." (Inspirational Quotes) Click to tweet
66. "Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing." (Inspirational Quotes) Click to tweet
67. "As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters." (Inspirational Quotes) Click to tweet
68. "Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart." (Inspirational Quotes) Click to tweet
69. "You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them." (Inspirational Quotes) Click to tweet
70. "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." (Inspirational Quotes) Click to tweet
71. "As long as you live, keep learning how to live." (Learning Quotes) Click to tweet
72. "Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die." (Learning Quotes) Click to tweet
73. "We learn not for school, but for life." (Learning Quotes) Click to tweet
74. "Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing." (Life Quotes) Click to tweet
75. "What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more." (Money Quotes) Click to tweet
76. "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." (Money Quotes) Click to tweet
77. "The mind must be given relaxation— it will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Just as rich fields must not be forced — for they will quickly lose their fertility if never given a break — so constant work on the anvil will fracture the force of the mind." (Never Give Up Quotes) Click to tweet 78. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars." (Never Give Up Quotes) Click to tweet
79. "No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." (Never Give Up Quotes) Click to tweet
80. "Constant misfortune brings this one blessing: to whom it always assails, it eventually fortifies." (Never Give Up Quotes) Click to tweet
81. "Apply reason to difficulties; harsh circumstances can be softened, narrow limits can be widened, and burdensome things can be made to press less severely on those who bear them cleverly." (Never Give Up Quotes) Click to tweet
82. "Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." (Never Give Up Quotes) Click to tweet
83. "Love in its essence is spiritual fire." (Positive Quotes) Click to tweet
84. "Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach." (Relationship Quotes) Click to tweet
85. "I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent – no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you." (Self Esteem Quotes) Click to tweet
86. "Besides, he who follows another not only discovers nothing but is not even investigating." (Self Esteem Quotes) Click to tweet
87. "No one is laughable who laughs at himself." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
88. "Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
89. "A great mind becomes a great fortune." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
90. "Where fear is, happiness is not." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
91. "The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
92. "He who is brave is free." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
93. "The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
94. "It is quality rather than quantity that matters." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
95. "The greatest remedy for anger is delay." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
96. "Time discovers truth." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
97. "One must steer, not talk." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
98. "As long as you live, keep learning how to live." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
99. "If you judge, investigate." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
100. "You are your choices." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
101. "Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
102. "Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
103. "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
104. "If you wished to be loved, love." (Short Quotes) Click to tweet
105. "It’s better to conquer grief than to deceive it." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
106. "What is the point of dragging up sufferings that are over, of being miserable now, because you were miserable then?" (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
107. "There is no genius without a touch of madness." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
108. "As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own possession. We must seize what flees." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
109. "This is why we need to envisage every possibility and to strengthen the spirit to deal with the things which may conceivably come about. Rehearse them in your mind: exile, torture, war, shipwreck. Misfortune may snatch you away from your country… if we do not want to be overwhelmed and struck numb by rare events as if they were unprecedented ones; fortune needs envisaging in a thoroughly comprehensive way." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet 110. "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." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
111. "While we wait for life, life passes." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
112. "A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
113. "It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
114. "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." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
115. "Inwardly, we ought to be different in every respect, but our outward dress should blend in with the crowd." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
116. "It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man’s power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn’t got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet 117. "It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
118. "We must indulge the mind and from time to time allow it the leisure which is its food and strength. We must go for walks out of doors, so that the mind can be strengthened by a clear sky and plenty of fresh air." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
119. "A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
120. "Whatever seems lofty is dangerous… those whom an unfavorable fortune has placed in a critical position will be safer if they eliminate pride from their proud circumstances and bring down their fortune as much as possible to a lowly state." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
121. "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?”" (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
122. "Set aside now and then a number of days during which you will be content with the plainest of food, and very little of it, and with rough, coarse clothing, and will ask yourself, ‘is this what one used to dread?" (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
123. "So, concerning the things we pursue, and for which we vigorously exert ourselves, we owe this consideration – either there is nothing useful in them, or most aren’t useful. Some of them are superfluous, while others aren’t worth that much. But we don’t discern this and see them as free, when they cost us dearly." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet 124. "You are scared of dying—and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different than being dead?" (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
125. "We should love all our dear ones… but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
126. "The mind should not be kept continuously at the same pitch of concentration, but given amusing diversions… our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after a rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigor, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet 127. "You need not look about for the reward of a just deed; a just deed in itself offers a still greater return." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
128. "Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather. It makes no difference whether it is built of turf or of variegated marble imported from another country." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet 129. "Timendi causa est nescire — ignorance is the cause of fear." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
130. "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
131. "The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
132. "The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
133. "What is quite unlooked for is more crushing in its effect, and unexpectedness adds to the weight of a disaster. The fact that it was unforeseen has never failed to intensify a person’s grief. This is a reason for ensuring that nothing ever takes us by surprise. We should project our thoughts ahead of us at every turn and have in mind every possible eventuality instead of only the usual course of events." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet 134. "All cruelty springs from weakness." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
135. "Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
136. "Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
137. "Let us not postpone anything, let us engage in combats with life each day." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
138. "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
139. "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
140. "Many men will meet me who are drunkards, lustful, ungrateful, greedy, and excited by the frenzy of ambition." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
141. "Everyone faces up more bravely to a thing for which he has long prepared himself, sufferings, even, being withstood if they have been trained for in advance. Those who are unprepared, on the other hand, are panic-stricken by the most insignificant happenings." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet 142. "Barley porridge, or a crust of bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener pleasure than the ability to derive pleasure even from that?—?And the feeling of having arrived at something which one cannot be deprived of by any unjust stroke of fortune." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet 143. "In the mean time, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
144. "Never have i put my trust in fortune, even when she appeared to be offering peace; all those gifts she bestowed on me in her kindness — money, position, influence — i stored where she would be able to reclaim them with no disturbance to me." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
145. "That person has lost their children: you too, can lose yours; that person received sentence of death: your innocence too, stands under the hammer. This is the fallacy that takes us in and makes us weak while we suffer misfortunes that we never foresaw that we could suffer. The person who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet 146. "To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
147. "Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
148. "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." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
149. "We should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
150. "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." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
151. "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." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
152. "In all things we should try to make ourselves be as grateful as possible." (Stoic Quotes) Click to tweet
153. "Just as rich fields must not be forced — for they will quickly lose their fertility if never given a break — so constant work on the anvil will fracture the force of the mind. But it regains its powers if it is set free and relaxed for a while." (Stress Quotes) Click to tweet
154. "If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person." (Stress Quotes) Click to tweet
155. "Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody." (Success Quotes) Click to tweet
156. "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." (Words of Wisdom) Click to tweet
157. "Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color." (Words of Wisdom) Click to tweet
158. "We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." (Words of Wisdom) Click to tweet
159. "No man was ever wise by chance." (Words of Wisdom) Click to tweet
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