It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
EPICTETUSYou have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Only the educated are free.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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