Marcus Aurelius Quotes

What you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do. It's always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle.

Just do as much as you can.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.

We are all more capable than we think we are.

I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

The thing is, you try your best, and what else you got? You try your best, really, that's all you can do. And for me, my best happens really so rarely.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

The worst thing in the world is telling yourself you can't do something.

Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till the experiment, what he is capable of effecting.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

If you can jump, you can jump.

I'm not somebody that's been a natural at anything.

You have more potential than you think.

You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.