Marcus Aurelius Quotes

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

I don't know what the future holds. All I know is, I'm good today. Real good.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

My heart seems to heal, so that speaks well for my future.

I never let myself get desperate.

In any situation, I'm going to be good.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

I just refuse to worry or get upset or be fearful. It doesn't do one particle of good.

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

There is no panic you can't allay, no problem you can't solve.

I have this intrinsic sense that everything will be okay.

My dear, with your love I can calmly face my impending trial, having no regrets about the choices I've made and optimistically awaiting tomorrow.

When you get 10-15 minutes, you can't be sad or angry with the coach. You just have to play your game and do your best. That is in my mind always.

I'm not really scared of getting work. I gave up worrying about that a long time ago because there's no point. I'm very much about living in the moment and taking each day as it comes.

I have my moments when I am down and low. But I gather myself when decisions are to be taken.

The one opinion that experience does for you is it keeps you cool, calm, and collected under pressure.

Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.