Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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
-
-
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EPICTETUS -
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUS -
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EPICTETUS -
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
EPICTETUS -
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
EPICTETUS -
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUS -
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
EPICTETUS -
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
EPICTETUS -
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
EPICTETUS -
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
EPICTETUS -
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUS -
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
EPICTETUS -
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
EPICTETUS -
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUS -
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
EPICTETUS