There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.
- Topic: Accountability
- Location: Crescent Lake, Oregon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Epictetus
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.
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.
If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's--eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.
