Emperor Quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

You always own the option of having no opinion.

There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new strategy.

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation.

Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

Most of what we say and do is not essential.

If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Adversity is the midwife of genius