Epictetus Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Happiness, You Make Me Happy

• If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

  Epictetus

  Anger, Giving, Wish

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, BookCaps Study Guides

• 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

• You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Attention, May

• No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Be Kind, Kind

• Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

  Epictetus

  People, Giving, Purpose

• When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

  Epictetus

  Taken, Giving, Attention

• When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Men, Air

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, BookCaps Study Guides

• Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

  Epictetus

  Men, Giving, Events

• Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.

  Epictetus

  Truth, Giving, Justice

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.57, Courier Corporation

• Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Challenges, Deeds

• Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Giving, Finding Yourself

• Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.' Why should it be any concern of yours who gives your things back to the world that gave them to you? The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Giving, Inner Peace

• If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: "I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

  Epictetus

  Sacrifice, Two, Giving

  Epictetus (2017). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

• It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

  Epictetus

  Views, Giving, Insulting

• When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.

  Epictetus

  Life, Names, Giving

• Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

  Epictetus

  Mean, Giving, Give Me

  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.125, Lulu.com

• We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

  Epictetus

  Learning, Giving, Credit

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.154

• Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Justice, Sentences

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.191, Enhanced Media Publishing

• Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Delight, Pleasure

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.192, Enhanced Media Publishing

• It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Wicked, Charity

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.426

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