Stoic Quotes

Stoic Quote of the day

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.

From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.

I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time, I'm stoic.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

The guy behind the counter scratches his neck. “Are you being serious?” Her face is stoic. “Absolutely. I never kid about teddy bears.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.

You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.

Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.

Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesn’t.

The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.

You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

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.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

It is uncertain where Death will await you

When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.

...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.

To expect punishment is to suffer it

She didn't shed a tear. Angels don't cry.

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, We take to smoke divine and wine.If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.

Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.