Control What You Can: 50 Stoic Inspiration Quotes
Stoicism teaches us to focus only on what we can control and to let go of the rest. These powerful quotes remind us of the strength, peace, and clarity that come when we embrace this timeless philosophy.
"You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
— Marcus Aurelius
"It is not things themselves that disturb us, but our opinions about them."
— Epictetus
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
— Seneca
"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."
— Marcus Aurelius
"No man is free, who is not master of himself."
— Epictetus
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
— Seneca
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it."
— Marcus Aurelius
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
— Epictetus
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
— Epictetus
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
— Seneca
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."
— Epicurus
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
— Seneca
"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
— Epictetus
"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."
— Epictetus
"He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive."
— Seneca
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."
— Epictetus
"Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack."
— Seneca
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
— Epictetus
"Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well."
— Epictetus
"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?"
— Epictetus
"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."
— Seneca
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
— Marcus Aurelius
"If you wish to be a writer, write."
— Epictetus
"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."
— Seneca
"Receive without pride, let go without attachment."
— Marcus Aurelius
"No man is free who is not a master of himself."
— Epictetus
"Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power."
— James Allen
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior."
— Epictetus
"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden."
— Seneca
"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
— Seneca
"Stop drifting — sprint instead toward a better life."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."
— Seneca
"Keep your intention pure. Emotions will mislead you."
— Epictetus
"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."
— Seneca
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Choose not to be harmed — and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed — and you haven't been."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Freedom lies in being bold."
— Robert Frost
"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"
— Marcus Aurelius
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake."
— Confucius
"You don't control external events. You control how you respond."
— Epictetus
"The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself."
— Epictetus
"Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not."
— Epictetus
"It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
— Epictetus
"You become what you give your attention to."
— Epictetus
"He conquers who endures."
— Persius
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