Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
More Epictetus Quotes
-
-
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
EPICTETUS -
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
EPICTETUS -
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
EPICTETUS -
It’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.
EPICTETUS -
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
EPICTETUS -
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
EPICTETUS -
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUS -
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUS -
Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
EPICTETUS -
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
EPICTETUS -
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUS -
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.
EPICTETUS -
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
EPICTETUS -
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.
EPICTETUS -
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUS