Epictetus Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Events, Opinion

• 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

• Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

  Epictetus

  Evil, Betrayed, Libertarian

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.179

• Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

  Epictetus

  Reality, Habit, Pleasant

• What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

  Epictetus

  Life, Asking, Good Person

• Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.

  Epictetus

  Running, Action, Habit

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.250

• 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

• To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

  Epictetus

  Habit

• Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

  Epictetus

  People, Mad, Wish

  Epictetus (1925). “Discourses”

• 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

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