Quotes By Marcus Aurelius

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Choice, Leadership, Responsibility

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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Conflict, Leadership

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

• Marcus Aurelius

• Solitude

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

• Marcus Aurelius

• Gratitude, Peace, Self

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Integrity, Respect, Self

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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Adversity, Life, Power

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Each day provides its own gifts.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Appreciation, Gratitude

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What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Society, Team

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

• Marcus Aurelius

• Action, Leadership

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There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Anger, Justice, Truth

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What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Leadership

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The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Pain, Wisdom

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

• Marcus Aurelius

• Conflict, Self-esteem

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• Oceanside, Oregon

Be tolerant with others and stick with yourself.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Discipline, Power, Self

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• Arches National Park

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Destiny, Fate

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Courage, Fear, Life, Thinking

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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Life, Time

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There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Action, Life

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• Arches National Park

Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Life, Nature

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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Criticism, Goals, Purpose

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Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Destiny, Fate

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• Death Valley National Park

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

• Marcus Aurelius

• Perception, Truth

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• Hawaii, Maui

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Ability, Education

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• Lake Tahoe

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.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Affirmation, Appreciation, Gratitude, Life, Love, Thinking

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• Lake Tahoe

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Vision

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• Yellowstone National Park

Don’t give the small things more time than they deserve.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Goals, Time

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• Lake Tahoe

All that is needed to make a happy life is within yourself, in your way of thinking.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Appreciation, Focus, Gratitude, Happiness, Thinking

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• Hawaii, Kula, Maui

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Happiness, Life, Self-esteem

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