The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSIt’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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 is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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