Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Marcus Aurelius

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• It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Enemy

• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  

  Sam Harris
  • You
  • Human
  • Wellbeing

• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Change

• The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Alone
  • Media
  • Social Media

• George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Son
  • President

• I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Great
  • Money
  • Football

• I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Literature

• Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Dollars
  • Line
  • Effectiveness

• If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Times
  • Fail
  • Himself

• For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Want
  • Hard
  • Worked

• If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Up
  • Energy

• I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Leadership
  • Daughter
  • Fathers

• I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Know
  • Person

• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Guys
  • Serial
  • Monogamist

• I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • People
  • Sweet
  • Start

• Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Enjoy
  • Show
  • Industrial

• If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Art
  • Change
  • Grief

• We do know that once again innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Gun
  • Innocent

• We stipulate about where we need to be in life: By this age you should be married, by this age you should have kids. But it's not that you can only do this or only do that. It's really about creating a holistic life: about planning ahead and being efficient with your time and really listening to yourself.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Life
  • Time
  • Kids

• I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Law
  • Relaxation
  • Cloning

• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Justice
  • Happiness
  • Superhuman

• The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way…

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • May
  • Light

• Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

  

  Marcus Aurelius