Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Everyone has a job to do; that's how I see it.

Everybody has a job to do and I'm no different.

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Consult duty not events.

One doesn't necessarily have a mission.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

When you are called, you serve

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'

I have a lot of responsibility.

All of us have a mission here on Earth.

Whatever my role is on each play, that's just what I have to do. I have to do my job. That's pretty much it, regardless of whether it's inside or outside.

What I do is I do my job.

I know what my role is.

When I'm acting, I do what I'm supposed to do.

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

Each man has some part to play.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?