First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EPICTETUSDifficulty shows what men are.
More Epictetus Quotes
-
-
Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
EPICTETUS -
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EPICTETUS -
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUS -
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUS -
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
EPICTETUS -
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
EPICTETUS -
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
EPICTETUS -
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EPICTETUS -
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
EPICTETUS -
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
EPICTETUS -
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
EPICTETUS -
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
EPICTETUS -
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUS -
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUS -
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
EPICTETUS