Skip to content
  • Home
  • About EJ
Search
Close

Excellent Journey

quotations / Stoics

Rule over yourself

June 22, 2014June 22, 2014 Eric Johnson

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
—Publius Syrus

The hardest challenge you face.

Be who you imagine yourself to be. Do what needs to be done. Every day take the measure of the man you are and are becoming.

This day not so stellar? Do better tomorrow.

Share this:

  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
Like Loading...

Related

Quotations, Stoics

Post navigation

Previous Post
Note to self
Next Post
Internal armor

Search

Categories

Follow Excellent Journey on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Recent Posts

  • By heart: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
  • By heart: Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte
  • By heart: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
  • By heart: The Journey by Mary Oliver
  • Fourth Quarter: Lock In, Finish Strong

Popular posts

  • Art & Fear: The ceramics class and quantity before quality
  • Bertrand Russell's message to future humans: Facts matter, love is wise, hatred is foolish
  • Walt Disney's vision and defying his father
  • Mike Rowe: "Become indispensable"
  • Monday night Stoic: Take Antoninus as your model
  • Seinfeld: "I'm a thrower-outer"
  • Fiction as fuel for the imagination
  • Resistance is futile: Hadrian and the profound power of acceptance
  • Conversations aren't contests: Good listening is more than just waiting your turn to speak
  • Stoic Zen: The glass is already broken

Categories

Blog at WordPress.com.
Back to top
  • Reblog
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Excellent Journey
    • Join 365 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Excellent Journey
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Copy shortlink
    • Report this content
    • View post in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
%d