Stoic Quotes on
Courage
Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe Bryant
The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.
Cleanthes of Assos
We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both. Not at the same time.
Brené Brown
Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue...
Marcus Aurelius
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
Paulo Coelho
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
Leo Tolstoy
A man cannot live well if he knows not how to die well.
Seneca
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca
The belly will not listen to advice; it makes demands, it importunes. And yet it is not a troublesome creditor; you can send it away at small cost, provided only that you give it what you owe, not merely all you are able to.
Seneca
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Confucius
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Your life doesn't get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn
Without courage, the disciplined pursuit of less is just lip service.
Greg McKeown
No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.
Epictetus
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
Seneca
Dig deep; the water- goodness- is down there. And as long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up.
Marcus Aurelius
How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it?
Marcus Aurelius
Who scorns his own life is lord of yours.
Seneca
You must vie with time's swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly.
Seneca
Besides, he who is feared, fears also; no one has been able to arouse terror and live in peace of mind.
Seneca
