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Epictetus Quote - We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
EPICTETUS

Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Consequences Fulfillment Happiness Positive
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Authentic Condition Happiness Independence Inspirational
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Important Philosophy Silence Speak Wisdom
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Business Finish Motivational Patience Start Success
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Accident Achievement Improvement Inspirational Luck Progress

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