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Work Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
- Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
- Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
- Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?
- If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'
- At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."
- Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them…
- It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and…
- In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
- Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always…
- Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where…
- Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what…
- In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then…
- Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness…
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