black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EPICTETUS

Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
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.
EPICTETUS

Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EPICTETUS

Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
EPICTETUS

Grief Happiness Man Rejoice Satisfaction Wise
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
EPICTETUS

Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUS

Character Determination Imagination Personality Role Model Yourself
No man is free who is not master of himself.
EPICTETUS

Freedom Himself Inspirational Master One Liner
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUS

Death Depression Fear Love Pain
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

Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUS

Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
EPICTETUS

Adversity Difficult Finding Friendship Prosperity
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EPICTETUS

Believe Motivational Yourself
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
EPICTETUS

Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
EPICTETUS

Accident Achievement Improvement Inspirational Luck Progress
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
EPICTETUS

Arise Control Neglect Power Suffering Try

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Epictetus Quotes