Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms?… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
