Stoicism Quotes
Collection of top 68 famous quotes about Stoicism
Stoicism Quotes & Sayings
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Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
— Seneca The Younger
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
— Colin Wilson
Stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.
— Audre Lorde
True affluence is not needing anything.
— Gary Snyder
She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.
— Candice Millard
In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.
— Raymond E. Feist
Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.
— Marcus Aurelius
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For death remembered should be like a mirror,Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error. — William Shakespeare
So just as Stoicism is the domestication, not the elimination, of emotions, so is the barbell a domestication, not the elimination, of uncertainty.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.
— Thiruvalluvar
The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.
— Mary Catherwood
Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.
— Alessandro Pertini
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
— Epictetus
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
— Jane Austen
No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.
— Epictetus
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Seneca's version of that Stoicism is antifragility from fate. No downside from Lady Fortuna, plenty of upside.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Warriors should suffer their pain silently.
— Erin Hunter
The peace of God is not the peace of stoicism or passivity. It is the most intense activity.
— Oswald Chambers
Most of us are "living the dream" living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.
— William B. Irvine
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
— Michael Chabon
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[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.
— Perry Anderson
How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized.
— Salman Rushdie
To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
— Seneca.
Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.
— Neel Burton
I hear my silence talked of in every lane;The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain. — Darshan Singh
(how well Stoicism hides what one does not possess!);
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Stoicism's Emotional Robustification Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A tenet of stoicism advises to live according to your nature. If you try to be something you aren't, you'll self-destruct.
— Blake Crouch
What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?
— Mason Cooley
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
— Richard J. Foster
Stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
— Gertrude Atherton
Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.
— Maureen Corrigan
He who despises life is his life's master.
— Pierre Corneille
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
— Markus Zusak
I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.
— Evan Mariah Pettit
Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.
— Maria V. Snyder
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
— Marcus Aurelius
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.
— Marcus Aurelius
