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Epictetus Quotes about Giving

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Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

People, Giving, Purpose

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

Taken, Giving, Attention

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

Giving, Be Kind, Kind

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

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

Men, Giving, Events

Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

Giving, Challenges, Deeds

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

Views, Giving, Insulting

When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.

Life, Names, Giving

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.

Truth, Giving, Justice

Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.57, Courier Corporation

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

Mean, Giving, Give Me

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

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.

Motivational, Giving, Finding Yourself

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.

Sacrifice, Two, Giving

Epictetus (2017). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Anger, Giving, Wish

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

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

Giving, Delight, Pleasure

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.192, Enhanced Media Publishing

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

Giving, Wicked, Charity

Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.426

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.

Motivational, Giving, Inner Peace

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Learning, Giving, Credit

Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.154

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

Giving, Justice, Sentences

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.191, Enhanced Media Publishing

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