Stoic Wisdom Quotes: Resilience, Control & Inner Strength

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. Calm your mind and face only the present.

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

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go without distress.