People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Topics: People Quotes, Self-esteem Quotes

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no...

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no...

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is...

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is...

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native...

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native...

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind;...

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind;...

Each day provides its own gifts.

Each day provides its own gifts.

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

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

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So...

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So...

A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always...

A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always...

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of...

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of...

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Fame is proof that people are gullible

Fame is proof that people are gullible

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money,...

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money,...