Epictetus Quotes about Choices

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

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

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

Epictetus

Jobs, Two, Choices

Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

Epictetus

Responsibility, Choices, Body

Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other

Epictetus

Stupid, Choices, Wish

Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Epictetus

Men, Stay Positive, Choices

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.197, Enhanced Media Publishing

We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.

Epictetus

Gratitude, Choices, Risk

Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.

Epictetus

Choices, Given, Resignation

It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.

Epictetus

Thinking, Pay The Price, Choices