Top 20 Stoic Quotes That Will Immediately Transform Your Perspective

These 20 timeless Stoic quotes will help you calm your mind, gather your courage, and face up to whatever life throws your way.

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1. “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
   

2. “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, Meditation
   

3. “If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.” ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
   

4. “It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.” ― Epictetus, Discourses and selected writings.
   

5. “Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditation
   

6. “No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.” ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
   

7. “A man is as much a fool for shedding tears because he isn't going to be alive a thousand years from now.” ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
   

8. “And if you want to know why all this running away cannot help you, the answer is simply this: you are running away in your own company.” ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
   

9. “Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice” ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
   

10. “If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult youz and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren’t you ashamed of that?” ― Epictetus, Enchiridion
    

11. “Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditation
    

12. “The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone, and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have? ― Marcus Aurelius
    

13. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ― Epictetus, Discourses and selected writings.
    

14. “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” ― Epictetus, Discourses and selected writings.
    

15. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ” ― Epictetus, Discourses and selected writings.
    

16. “Man is not worried about real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems” ― Epictetus, Discourses and selected writings.
    

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

18. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditation
    

19. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditation
    

20. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditation