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You may know Marcus Aurelius from history books. Or from the first part of the classic movie Gladiator. He lived and ruled the Roman Empire almost 2000 years ago so it\u2019s kind of unlikely that we would know so much about him and his innermost thoughts today. But he wrote in a private journal called Meditations. Just to help himself with his own life, like many of us have done. After his death this journal was published and read and so his honest, unedited and practical view on life has lived on for thousands of years. And in today\u2019s post I want to share 101 of the best Marcus Aurelius quotes on leadership, stoicism, success and life. I hope you\u2019ll find something here to give you strength, clarity and a simpler and more joyful life.

The Best Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Life and Stoicism<\/h2> \u201cYou have power over your mind \u2013 not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.\u201d \u201cWe live only now. Everything else is either passed or is unknown.\u201d \u201cThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.\u201d \u201cDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.\u201d \u201cWhen you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive \u2013 to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.\u201d \u201cEverything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.\u201d \u201cThe soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.\u201d \u201cVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.\u201d \u201cThe universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.\u201d \u201cThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.\u201d \u201cLive a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.\u201d \u201cWherever a person can live, there one can also live well.\u201d \u201cLife is short. That\u2019s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present \u2013 thoughtfully, justly.\u201d \u201cTo live happily is an inward power of the soul.\u201d \u201cEvery living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.\u201d \u201cLife is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.\u201d \u201cAlmost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence.\u201d \u201cToday I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions \u2013 not outside.\u201d \u201cThe things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.\u201d \u201cHe who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.\u201d

Famous Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Success and Leadership<\/h2> \u201cBegin \u2013 to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.\u201d \u201cWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.\u201d \u201cIt is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.\u201d \u201cHow much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.\u201d \u201cIf someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.\u201d \u201cA man\u2019s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.\u201d \u201cDo not be wise in words \u2013 be wise in deeds.\u201d \u201cThe art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks.\u201d \u201cNo random actions, none not based on underlying principles.\u201d \u201cThink of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself \u2018I\u2019ll do it tomorrow,\u2019 and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time.\u201d \u201cThis is the mark of perfection of character \u2013 to spend each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, laziness, or any pretending.\u201d \u201cThe opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.\u201d \u201cLet men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.\u201d \u201cTake the shortest route, the one that nature planned \u2013 to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension.\u201d \u201cNothing should be done without a purpose.\u201d \u201cEven the smallest thing should be done with reference to an end.\u201d \u201cA man should be upright, not be kept upright.\u201d \u201cDo every act of your life as if it were your last.\u201d \u201cWhat is your art? To be good.\u201d \u201cIt is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth, for then you won\u2019t tire and give up, if you aren\u2019t busying yourself with lesser things beyond what should be allowed.\u201d

Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Obstacles, Resilience and Difficult People<\/h2> \u201cIf you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.\u201d \u201cThe best revenge is not to be like your enemy.\u201d \u201cThe more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.\u201d \u201cWhenever someone has done wrong by you, immediately consider what notion of good or evil they had in doing it. For when you see that, you\u2019ll feel compassion, instead of astonishment or rage.\u201d \u201cHere is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not \u2018This is misfortune,\u2019 but \u2018To bear this worthily is good fortune.’\u201d \u201cIt never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.\u201d \u201cWhenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?\u201d \u201cChoose not to be harmed, and you won\u2019t feel harmed. Don\u2019t feel harmed, and you haven\u2019t been.\u201d \u201cHow much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.\u201d \u201cThe best answer to anger is silence.\u201d \u201cReject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.\u201d \u201cYou always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can\u2019t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.\u201d \u201cSay to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill. I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.\u201d \u201cWhen another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.\u201d \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don\u2019t care at all.\u201d \u201cThe mind freed from passions is an impenetrable fortress \u2013 a person has no more secure place of refuge for all time.\u201d \u201cNever 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.\u201d \u201cKindness is invincible, but only when it\u2019s sincere, with no hypocrisy or faking. For what can even the most malicious person do if you keep showing kindness and, if given the chance, you gently point out where they went wrong \u2013 right as they are trying to harm you?\u201d \u201cNothing happens to anyone that he can\u2019t endure.\u201d \u201cBecause a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible.\u201d

Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Love and Death<\/h2> \u201cIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.\u201d \u201cLife is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.\u201d \u201cDeath smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back.\u201d \u201cWhat we do now echoes in eternity.\u201d \u201cAccept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.\u201d \u201cYour days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.\u201d \u201cAdapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.\u201d \u201cDo not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.\u201d \u201cThink of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what\u2019s left and live it properly. What doesn\u2019t transmit light creates its own darkness.\u201d \u201cTo love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.\u201d \u201cLet each thing you would do, say, or intend be like that of a dying person.\u201d \u201cPass through this brief patch of time in harmony with nature, and come to your final resting place gracefully, just as a ripened olive might drop, praising the earth that nourished it and grateful to the tree that gave it growth.\u201d \u201cThe memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.\u201d \u201cDeath, like birth, is a secret of Nature.\u201d \u201cLoss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature\u2019s delight.\u201d \u201cTime 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.\u201d \u201cHe who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.\u201d \u201cHow soon will time cover all things, and how many it has covered already.\u201d \u201cThe only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.\u201d \u201cBe content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.\u201d

Short and Powerful Marcus Aurelius Quotes<\/h2> \u201cThe first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t give the small things more time than they deserve.\u201d \u201cDoing what\u2019s right sometimes requires patience.\u201d \u201cIf it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.\u201d \u201cStay calm and serene regardless of what life throws at you.\u201d \u201cGive yourself a gift: the present moment.\u201d \u201cBe tolerant with others and strict with yourself.\u201d \u201cReceive without conceit, release without struggle.\u201d \u201cDig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.\u201d \u201cSomeone despises me. That\u2019s their problem.\u201d \u201cConfine yourself to the present.\u201d \u201cThe first step: Don\u2019t be anxious. Nature controls it all.\u201d \u201cStraight, not straightened.\u201d \u201cEach day provides its own gifts.\u201d \u201cThere is but one thing of real value \u2013 to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.\u201d \u201cThat which isn\u2019t good for the hive, isn\u2019t good for the bee.\u201d \u201cHow ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.\u201d \u201cFrightened of change? But what can exist without it? What\u2019s closer to nature\u2019s heart?\u201d \u201cOften, injustice lies in what you aren\u2019t doing, not only in what you are doing.\u201d \u201cLook well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.\u201d Want more timeless wisdom?<\/strong> Then have a look at these Maya Angelou quotes<\/a>, the Winnie the Pooh quotes<\/a> in this post and also this one with the best Dolly Parton quotes<\/a>. <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n \n \n

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