Epictetus Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

  Epictetus

  Silly, Reflection, Achievement

• To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

  Epictetus

  Fate, Self, Cities

• Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

  Epictetus

  Life, Play, Actors

• Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.

  Epictetus

  Life, Prayer, Hands

  Epictetus (2015). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus”, p.82, Booklassic

• When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.

  Epictetus

  Thinking, Doe, Remember

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

  Epictetus

  Children, Leader, Parent

• Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Focus, World

• We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

  Epictetus

  Life, Duty, Wells

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