Epictetus Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.

  Epictetus

  Character, Pay The Price, Volunteer

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

  Epictetus

  Character, Effort, Tourism

• Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

  Epictetus

  Character, Role Models, Follow Your Heart

• If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

  Epictetus

  Strength, Character, Might

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.17, Courier Corporation

• Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

  Epictetus

  Business, Character, Men

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.502, Lulu.com

• Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

  Epictetus

  Character, Men, Long

  Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

• Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But remember that they have their own distinct character, which is quite a separate matter from how we happen to regard them.

  Epictetus

  Character, Thinking, Reality

• To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

  Epictetus

  Character, Men, Lovers

  Epictetus (1890). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”

• One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

  Epictetus

  Character, Role Models, Roles

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