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Epictetus Quotes - Page 2

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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

Joy, Secret, Knows

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

Deeds, Virtue

Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

Fall, Self, Worry

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

Giving, Be Kind, Kind

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

Silence, Few Words, Silence Is

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

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

Order, Purpose, Please

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Inspirational, Attitude, Anger

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Friendship, Best Friend, Uplifting

"The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness, A New Interpretation by Sharon Lebell". Book by Epictetus, 1994.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

God, Thinking, Eating

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

Simple, Consistency, Ifs

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Life, Views, Trying

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

Attitude, Views, People

God has entrusted me with myself.

Inspirational, Responsibility, Self Improvement

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

Natural, Fulfillment, Doing The Right Thing

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Merit, Given, Concerned

Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.12, Harper Collins

Act your part with honor.

Honor

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Forgiveness, Spiritual, Wisdom

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

Motivational, Philosophical, Responsibility

Books are the training weights of the mind.

Book, Training, Mind

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn't be affected by an incident unless you let it.

Positive, Challenges, Body

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.

Giving, Attention, May

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.

Habit

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching

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

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

Character, Effort, Tourism

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

Motivational, Leadership, Draws

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