Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Morning Mindset

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Begin each day by telling yourself: today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness.

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

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

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

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

Confine yourself to the present.

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Look well into thyself. There is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

You always own the option of having no opinion.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

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

Do not waste the remainder of your life in thoughts about others.

Each morning, ask: am I doing this because it is necessary, or because I want others to see me doing it?

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Time is a river of passing events. As soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away.

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?

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind.

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

Get going, but go without complaining.

At every morning, remember: today, you have everything you need to be at peace.