Epictetus

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Topic: Learning
Location: Hawaii, Maui
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

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Focus Goals Life

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

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Action Patience Time Work

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

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Awareness Intelligence Perception Thinking

Happiness Power Thinking

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

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Goals Purpose Vision

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

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Gratitude Humility Solitude

Accountability

It is difficulties that show what men are. — Epictetus

Adversity Misfortune

More Quotes from Hawaii

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. — Publilius Syrus

Communication Listening Wisdom

Virtue is sometimes the future. — Socrates

Goals Virtue Vision Visualize

Kindness

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books. — Benjamin Disraeli

Action Education Thinking

High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes

Communication Thinking

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. — Mark Twain

compliment Respect

First, think. Second, dream. Third, believe. And finally, dare. — Walt Disney

Belief Confidence Courage Dreams

Better to be despised for anxious apprehensions, than be ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke

Confidence Safety

All dreams come true—if we have the courage to pursue them. — Walt Disney

Courage Dreams

More on Learning

Learn, compare, collect the facts. — Ivan Pavlov

Learning Mistakes Thinking

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. — Aristotle

Learning

Leadership is not something that you learn once and for all. It is an ever-evolving pattern of skills, talents, and ideas that grow and change as you do. — Sheila Murray Bethel

Change Leadership Learning

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. — Indira Gandhi

Learning Solitude

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

Failure Learning Success

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

› Albert Einstein

Education Learning

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.

› Robert Louis Stevenson

Learning Writing

You learn in life the only person you can really correct and change is yourself. — Katharine Hepburn

Change Discipline Learning Self

Time as he grows old teaches all things. — Aeschylus

Education Knowledge Learning Time Wisdom

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. — Bruce Lee

Education Learning Mistakes

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

› Walt Whitman

Education Learning Truth