Quotes I've found interesting

You stand as you always have.  A good man does what he must.

Kore,   Spartacus, s04e10

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius  

Excess in anything becomes a fault.

Seneca  

Life without design is erratic.

Seneca  

When your efforts are not directed at a cause or a purpose, how will you know what to do day in and day out? How will you know what to say no to and what to say yes to? How will you know when you’ve had enough, when you’ve reached your goal, when you’ve gotten off track, if you’ve never defined what those things are?

Ryan Holiday,   Daily Stoic

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

Marguerite Yourcenar,   Memoirs of Hadrian

When change comes, you can scream and try to force things to stay the same. But you usually end up getting trampled. However, if you can direct the changes, they can serve you.

Brandon Sanderson,   Towers of Midnight

Burnout isn't the number of hours you work. It's too much effort on things that are against your core interests and values.

Sarah Drasner,   Twitter

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero,   AZ Quotes

Don't just say that you have read books.  Show that through them you have learned to think better.

Epictetus