77 Quotes By Marcus Aurelius


Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Marcus Aurelius on future

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius on good

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius on good

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius on good

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius on good

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Marcus Aurelius on good

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius on good

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius on good

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
Marcus Aurelius on good

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Marcus Aurelius on good

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius on good

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius on great

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius on happiness

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius on imagination

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius on inspirational

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius on life

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius on life

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius on life

Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius on life

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius on life