Stoicism Quotes

“We are born old enough to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

— Anonymous

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

— Euripides

“The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Life is the struggle of delaying death.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He who despises life is his life's master.

— Pierre Corneille

Only the educated are free. --Epictetus

— Anonymous

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

— Mason Cooley

“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact you will die.”

— Derren Brown

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

— Mary Catherwood

“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.” — Marcus Aurelius   Stoicism”

— Dominic Mann

“philosophers”—the ancient Stoics—even if they’d never read them.* They had the”

— Ryan Holiday

“It is better to be a well-rounded Christian than a stoic, hypocrite.”

— Lisa Askew

I feel like I'm pretty stoic until I'm not and then it all comes out.

— Jason Kelce

“He who waits for permission to live will find himself buried with the others who did the same.”

— David Maze

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike…

— Leo Tolstoy

I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time,…

— LeCrae

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

— Michael Chabon

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of…

— Will Durant

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;…

— Alexander Pope

“You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other peoples’ opinions.”

— Mark Manson

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Fate permitting" is a standard Stoic phrase meant to remind ourselves that planning things is up to us, but the ultimate outcomes…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“We should remember that even Nature's inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. Take the baking of bread. The loaf splits…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to…

— Anonymous

Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not…

— Dallas Willard

Note to self: Positive hearts reward the hearts of the pythagoras soul, yet attract the neoplatonic thoughts of our peripatetic minds in…

— Jasmina Siderovski

“Our Stoic philosophers, as you know, maintain that there are two elements in the universe from which all things are derived, namely…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to…

— Oliver Burkeman

The Stoics appear during a huge time of constant wars and real political strife. And it became very popular, I think, because…

— Derren Brown

“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is…

— Ryan Holiday

But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided…

— Svante Arrhenius

“The Stoics taught a life of restraint and control, the personal cultivation of learning, beauty, and reason. The Stoics asked the Romans…

— Norman F. Cantor

But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their…

— Peter Cosgrove

“He strove for the diapason, the great song that should embrace in itself a whole epoch, a complete era, the voice of…

— Frank Norris

“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors…

— Upton Sinclair

“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than…

— Robert G. Ingersoll