The best place to get help is from yourself.
EPICTETUSThe best place to get help is from yourself.
EPICTETUSHappiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
EPICTETUSWhat concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSIt takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
EPICTETUSDon’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.
EPICTETUSYou 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.
EPICTETUSNo great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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.
EPICTETUSKnow you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EPICTETUSWe can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
EPICTETUSIt’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUSIf evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUSIt’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.
EPICTETUSNature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
EPICTETUSDo not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUSThe world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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