Epictetus Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

  Epictetus

  Men, Opposites, Progress

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

• Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

  Epictetus

  Luck, Progress, Working On Yourself

• An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Men, Ignorant

• Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell

  Epictetus

  Mistake, Book, Thinking

• Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

  Epictetus

  Work, Progress, Looks

  Epictetus (2014). “Discourses, Fragments, Handbook”, p.43, OUP Oxford

• If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

  Epictetus

  Perfection, Promise, Progress

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

• Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

  Epictetus

  Progress, Blame, Remember

  Epictetus (1916). “The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings”

• 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

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