Marcus Aurelius Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Marcus Aurelius quotes, Marcus Aurelius sayings, and Marcus Aurelius proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

All is temporary and ephemeral—fame and the famous, as well. Marcus Aurelius
Ask yourself daily, how many ill-minded persons you have shown a kind disposition. Marcus Aurelius
Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live. Marcus Aurelius
A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. Marcus Aurelius
We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws. Marcus Aurelius
If it is not right do not do it if it is not true do not say it. Marcus Aurelius
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given, and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. Marcus Aurelius
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? Marcus Aurelius
If 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. Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius
In the case of nature, it means that what happens to each of us is ordered to help aid our destiny. Marcus Aurelius
No one can lose either the past or the future, for how can someone be deprived of what's not theirs. Marcus Aurelius
If 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. Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. Marcus Aurelius
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelius
Your life is what your thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now. Marcus Aurelius
Never 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. Marcus Aurelius
Not becoming like your enemy is the best revenge. Marcus Aurelius
The unripe grape, the ripe, and the dried. All things are changes, not into nothing, but into that which is not at present. Marcus Aurelius
No one was ever injured by the truth. But a man injures himself if he lives with self-deception and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius
If 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. Marcus Aurelius
It is your mind that makes judgments about good and evil. Stop these judgments and all will be well. Let your mind pronounce nothing to be either good or evil if it can happen equally to both good men and bad. Marcus Aurelius
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. Marcus Aurelius
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work. Marcus Aurelius
Constantly regard the universe as a single living being, having one substance and one soul; observe how all creation relates to the cosmic consciousness of this one living being. Marcus Aurelius
I seek the truth it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. Marcus Aurelius