Marcus Aurelius Quotes: Inspiring Words from the Roman Emperor

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

The wise man takes nothing for granted; every day is a new beginning, a new opportunity to learn and grow.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

It is not death that a person should fear, but they should fear never beginning to live.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The present moment is all any of us have.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

What stands in the way becomes the way.

The goal of life is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than you used to be.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your life.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like your enemy.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you, but do so with all your heart.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.