"Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon……" — Epictetus
"Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment."
—
Epictetus
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
353 Quotes by Epictetus
Epictetus has 353 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people…
-
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
-
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
-
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
-
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
-
To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
-
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
-
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
-
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
-
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
-
I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
-
What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
See all 353 quotes by Epictetus »
More Beckons Quotes
This quote is filed under Beckons Quotes,
one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
— Ambrose Bierce
-
The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive…
— J. G. Holland
-
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
— Euripides
-
Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with…
— Sri Chinmoy
-
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the…
— James Russell Lowell
-
Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed…
— Dorothea Johnson
-
Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so…
— Gary Haugen
-
Who was this Man of sorrows, acquainted with grief? Who is the King of glory, this Lord of hosts? He…
— Thomas S. Monson
-
I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to…
— Thierry Henry
-
Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the…
— Robert Liparulo
-
Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go…
— Robert M. Price
-
The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
See all 47 Beckons Quotes »