Inspirational Quotes by Epictetus · Page 2

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

— Epictetus

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

— Epictetus

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

— Epictetus

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

— Epictetus

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

— Epictetus

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

— Epictetus

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

— Epictetus

“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness”

— Epictetus

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

— Epictetus

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

— Epictetus

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

— Epictetus

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

— Epictetus

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

— Epictetus

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

— Epictetus

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

— Epictetus

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

— Epictetus

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

— Epictetus

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

— Epictetus

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

— Epictetus

Its not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

— Epictetus

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

— Epictetus

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

— Epictetus

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

— Epictetus

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

— Epictetus

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by…

— Epictetus

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

— Epictetus

There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.

— Epictetus

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

— Epictetus

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

— Epictetus

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

— Epictetus

“Times relieves the foolish from sorrow, but reason relieves the wise”

— Epictetus

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

— Epictetus

“It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.”

— Epictetus

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

— Epictetus

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

— Epictetus

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

— Epictetus

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

— Epictetus

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

— Epictetus

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

— Epictetus

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

— Epictetus