It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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