Philosophy has been a source of motivation and inspiration for thousands of years. The wisdom from ancient Greece all the way up to our more modern thinkers has helped people of all walks of life see the world, themselves, and the people around us a little differently, and with that change in perspective comes a change in our response.
Here are some of my favorite motivational quotes
Motivational Quotes:
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
– Thucydides
Make the best use of what’s in your power and take the rest as it happens
– Epictetus
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
– Sun Tzu
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
– Cicero
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
– Cicero
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
– Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
– Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love
– Marcus Aurelius
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
– Marcus Aurelius
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
– Marcus Aurelius
Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
– Marcus Aurelius
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
– Socrates
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
– Socrates
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
– Cicero
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
– Cicero
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
– Cicero
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
– Galileo Galilei
You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
– Galileo Galilei
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
– Galileo Galilei
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
– Galileo Galilei
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
– Galileo Galilei
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
– Galileo Galilei
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
– Lao Tzu
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
-Lao Tzu
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
-Lao Tzu
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
-Lao Tzu
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
– Bertrand Russell
