10 Stoic Quotes on Morning Routine

  • “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”

    — Marcus Aurelius
  • “In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”

    — Marcus Aurelius
  • “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.”

    — Marcus Aurelius
  • “Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”

    — Marcus Aurelius
  • “When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil.”

    — Marcus Aurelius
  • “If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, ‘I awake to do the work of a man.”

    — Marcus Aurelius
  • “‎Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.”

    — Marcus Aurelius
  • “BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.”

    — Marcus Aurelius
  • “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

    — Epictetus
  • “Is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

    — Marcus Aurelius