"You become what you give your attention to." —Epictetus

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." —Diogenes

"'Mind over matter' is a powerful expression. Your ability to consciously control your mindset is what makes you mentally tough and ready for life’s challenges. The secret to achieving this resilient state lies in taking control of your thoughts and allowing your thoughts to control your behaviors, not the other way around. Your ability to take control of your emotional responses and live a stoic-inspired life is the secret to success, to your happiness, and to your improved well-being. When you are able to see situations as opportunities and emotional responses as conscious choices—when you realize things don’t happen to you but rather with you—your outlook completely changes. How you see your situation affects and influences how you feel about that situation. You are not merely a byproduct of your circumstances. You are a choosing being who has the ability to determine your emotional responses, which in turn shapes how you view the world, yourselves, and others. But learning to change your perspectives takes practice—practice which will in turn help increase your self-confidence. By practicing cognitive restructuring, you can retrain your brain and create new habits that will make you the master of any situation. When choosing how you feel and react becomes your choice, you will feel more in control. “Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace." —Epictetus

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." —Aristotle

"The willing are led by fate, the reluctant dragged." —Cleanthes

"Deaths that are greater, greater portions gain." —Heraclitus

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." —Seneca

"Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back." —Marcus Aurelius

"People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right." —Xenophon, Conversations Of Socrates

"We must take a higher view of all things, and bear with them more easily: it better becomes a man to scoff at life than to lament over it." —Seneca

"It is greed to do all the talking but to not want to listen at all." —Democritus

"You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself. Don’t expect to encourage good deeds in people conscious of your own misdeeds." —Musonius Rufus

"Above all things, respect yourself." —Pythagoras

"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself." —Hierocles

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." —Aristotle

"Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit." —Cato

"Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary?" —Marcus Aurelius

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will." —Epictetus

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." —Plato

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." —Aristotle