Marcus Aurelius Advice Quotes

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.

- Marcus Aurelius

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

- Marcus Aurelius

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

- 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

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

- Marcus Aurelius

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

- Marcus Aurelius

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

- Marcus Aurelius

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart

- Marcus Aurelius

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

- Marcus Aurelius

The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behavior of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.

- Donald Davidson

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

- Carolyn Wells

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you’re boned, what’s left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

- Mae West

When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.

- Frank Tyger

No one ever injured their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.

- Anonymous

Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceed in a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

- Bruno Bettelheim

I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorize success. I authorize it alright. Smile.

- Gertrude Stein

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

- Jos Bergamin

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

- Carl Rowan

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

- Friedrich Nietzsche