Marcus Aurelius Quotes

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes from Meditations
Self-Development Quotes on: Love

Everything--a horse, a vine--is created for some duty...For what task, then, were you yourself created?

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes from Meditations
Motivational Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes from Meditations
Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes from Meditations
Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Truth, Persistence

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes from Meditations
Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Stress, Power

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes from Meditations
Motivational Quotes on: Action, The Moment, Life, Power

Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses…

~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes from Meditations
Inspirational Quotes on: Action, The Moment, Life

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes from Meditations
Famous Quotes on: Attitude, Thoughts, Life, Habit

Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

~ Marcus Aurelius Quotes from Meditations