Philosophy Quotes - Wisdom of the Ancients
Explore motivational quotes from philosophers that offer everyday insights, empowering you to overcome challenges and embrace personal growth.
“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
Epictetus
“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
Christopher Markus
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
Victor Frankl
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
Bruce Lee
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”
Epicurus
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
Marcus Aurelius
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
John Stuart Mill
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle
“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.”
Markus Zusak
“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”