Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUSWhen you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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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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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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You 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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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