Marcus Aurelius

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"When performing a task, look within yourself and find what quality the task demands."

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."

"You can commit injustice by inaction as well as by action."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

"The evil lies within your own soul. Get rid of it and everything changes."

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things."

"Fresh misfortunes must be expected. But you must greet them with humor."

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

"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."

"Confine yourself to the present moment."

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

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

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

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."

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

"It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live."

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."

"How much trouble he avoids who does not look to what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure."

"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure."

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

"Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.'"

"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come in the future."

"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own."

"Silence is sometimes the best answer."

"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually dash; but which stands firm and tames the violence of the water around it."

"Consider that everything is opinion and opinion can be changed."