Stoicism in Discipline Quotes

"Denial is the ultimate comfort zone."

"You have to callous your mind. When you are callous, you are confident. You aren't afraid of the cold because you know the cold."

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity."

"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."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have."

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

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

"No great thing is created suddenly."

"Pre-mortem: Looking ahead to what could go wrong so you can fix it now."

"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: 'I have to go to work—as a human being.'"

"The obstacle is the way."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

"Whenever I have offended anyone, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."

"Conquer yourself rather than the world."

"My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world."

"You can't control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act."

"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses."

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition."

"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them."