77 Quotes By Marcus Aurelius


There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Marcus Aurelius on power

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius on relationship

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius on science

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius on strength

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius on strength

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Marcus Aurelius on success

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

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Marcus Aurelius on time

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius on time

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

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

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius on truth

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Marcus Aurelius on work

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Marcus Aurelius on nature

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius on observation

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus Aurelius on soul

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius on strength