21 Stoic Quotes That Will Change Your Life

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As long as man has been alive, he has been collecting little sayings about how to live. We find them carved in the rock of the Temple of Apollo and etched as graffiti on the walls of Pompeii. They appear in the plays of Shakespeare, the commonplace book of H. P. Lovecraft, the collected proverbs of Erasmus, and the ceiling beams of Montaigne’s study. Today, they’re recorded on iPhones and in Evernote. But whatever generation is doing it, whether they’re written by scribes in China or commoners in some European dungeon or simply passed along by a kindly grandfather, these little epigrams of life advice have taught essential lessons. How to respond to adversity. How to think about money. How to meditate on our mortality. How to have courage. These are 21 quotes that will change you into a better person gathered by bestselling author Ryan Holiday. Each one is worth remembering, having queued in your brain for one of life’s crossroads or to drop at the perfect moment in conversation. → Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail → FREE GUIDE to Stoic philosophy: https://dailystoic.com/freeguide → Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 00:00 Intro 01:13 1. “We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.” — Theodore Roosevelt 02:25 2. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus 03:10 3. “The best revenge is not to be like that.” — Marcus Aurelius 04:33 4. “There is good in everything, if only we look for it.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder 05:27 5. “Character is fate.” — Heraclitus 06:23 6. “If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.” — Nicholas Nassim Taleb 07:38 7. “Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson 08:36 8. “This is not your responsibility but it is your problem.” — Cheryl Strayed 09:39 9. “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius 10:37 10. “You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.” — Bhagavad Gita 11:36 11. “Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.” — Epicurus 12:23 12. “Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset 13:03 13. “Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” — Zeno 14:01 14. “Space I can recover. Time, never.” — Napoleon Bonaparte 15:01 15. “You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.” — Warren Buffett 16:18 16. “Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.” — Benjamin Franklin 17:04 17. “The world was not big enough for Alexander the Great, but a coffin was.” — Juvenal 18:00 18. “To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.” — Winston Churchill 18:53 19. “Judge not, lest you be judged.” — Jesus 19:59 20. “Time and patience are the strongest warriors.” — Leo Tolstoy 21:13 21. “No one saves us but ourselves / No one can and no one may.” — Buddha Instagram: ​https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dailystoic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic #Stoicism​ #DailyStoic​ #RyanHoliday​