Epictetus Motivational Quotes

Quotes about: Motivational

• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.111

• Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Philosophical, Responsibility

• No man is free who is not master of himself.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Self Esteem, Philosophical

  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

• The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Business, Lying

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.70

• 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

• The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Desire, Fleeting

• Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Independent, Authentic Happiness

• Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Leadership, Draws

• A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Determination, Average

• What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Trying Something New

• It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Wise, Extraordinary Person

• If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Faults, Defense

• Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Focus, Doe

• 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

• When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Integrity, Worry

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

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Focus, World

• To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Real, Progress

• It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Kindness, People

• Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Hurt, Choices

• All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

  Epictetus

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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