Stoicism Quotes

Stoicism Quote of the day

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Warriors should suffer their pain silently.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

He who despises life is his life's master.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

True affluence is not needing anything.

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.

Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times, and there is a stoicism in the face of challenges that I greatly admire.

All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.

But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time.""I hope so, " replied Moominpappa. "Pass me a banana, please dear.

Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.

[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.

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.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.

Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits