1,166 Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, ‘Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?’

Stick to what’s in front of you – idea, action, utterance.

Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it.

To live each day as though one’s last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is the perfection of character.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present – I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don’t.

Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds.