Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Only the educated are free.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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