How you handle even minor adversity might seem like nothing, but, in fact, it reveals everything.
How you do anything is how you can do everything.
He who indulges empty fears earns himself real fears, wrote Seneca,
He had the strength to resist temptation or excitement, no matter how seductive, no matter the situation.
Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room—until you change that with results. Ryan Holliday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 56
God laid down this law, saying: if you want some good, get it from yourself (1.29.4). Protect your own good in all that you do (4.3.11).
From good people you’ll learn good, but if you mingle with the bad you’ll destroy such soul as you had. —MUSONIUS RUFUS, QUOTING THEOGNIS OF MEGARA, LECTURES, 11.53.21–22
Focusing exclusively on what is in our power magnifies and enhances our power.
Each day presents the chance to overthink things.
But what is philosophy? Doesn’t it simply mean preparing ourselves for what may come? Don’t you understand that really amounts to saying that if I would so prepare myself to endure, then let anything...
But he knew plenty of distracting sinkholes too: gossip, the endless call of work, as well as fear, suspicion, lust. Every human being is pulled by these internal and external forces that are increasi...
Because sadly, this trait, the inability to get out of one’s head, is not restricted to fiction.
Be slow in deliberation, but be prompt to carry out your resolves – Demonicus
Ask yourself about the people you meet and spend time with: Are they making me better? Do they encourage me to push forward and hold me accountable? Or do they drag me down to their level? Now, with t...
As Plutarch finely expressed, The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown.
And it is precisely at this divergence—between how Rockefeller perceived his environment
And from what we know, he truly saw each and every one of these obstacles as an opportunity to practice some virtue: patience, courage, humility, resourcefulness, reason, justice, and creativity.
Al no contar con una evaluación precisa de nuestras propias capacidades comparadas con las de los demás, lo que tenemos no es seguridad en nosotros mismos sino delirio.
To be a philosopher in all that you do, and if you wish also to be seen as one, show yourself first that you are and you will succeed.
You thought it would get easier when you arrived; instead, it’s even harder—a different animal entirely. What you found is that you must manage yourself in order to maintain your success.