30 Stoicism Quotes on Control

30 Stoicism Quotes on Control.

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.” – Epictetus

“Some things are up to us, and some things are not up to us.” – Epictetus

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

“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.” – Seneca

“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

“Don’t seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.” – Epictetus

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” – Marcus Aurelius

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” – Epictetus

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” – Epictetus

“No man is free who is not master of himself.” – Epictetus

“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life!” – Marcus Aurelius

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” – Seneca

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca

“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” – Epictetus

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” – Seneca

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” – Marcus Aurelius

“To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.” – Marcus Aurelius

“No man is crushed by fortune unless he first has been deceived by her promises.” – Seneca

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” – Seneca

“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Circumstances don’t make the man; they only reveal him to himself.” – Epictetus

“We control our reasoned choice and all acts that depend on that moral will. What is not under our control are the body, property, reputation, office, and, in a word, all that is not our own act.” – Epictetus

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” – Seneca

“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” – Epictetus

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.” – Epictetus

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.” – Marcus Aurelius