The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSYou 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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