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Quotes By Epictetus

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Epictetus

Action, Leadership

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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.

Epictetus

Focus, Goals, Life

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

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Attitude, Perception

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Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Epictetus

Focus, Self, Values

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Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

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Business, Friendship

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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

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If you wish to be a writer, write.

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Action

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If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

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Self

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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

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Imagination, Pessimism

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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

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Anger

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Crescent Lake, Oregon

There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.

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Accountability

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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.”

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Perception

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Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

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Awareness, Patience, Purpose

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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.

Epictetus

Awareness, Intelligence, Perception, Thinking

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

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Gratitude, Humility, Solitude

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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.

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Alone, Self-esteem

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Lake Tahoe

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Epictetus

Confidence, Laughter, Self-esteem

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Death Valley National Park

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

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Honesty, Truth

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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think they are.

Epictetus

Awareness, Thinking

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Hawaii, Maui

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

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Learning

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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

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Lake Powell

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

Epictetus

Action, Self, Work

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Bryce Canyon National Park

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

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Anger, Habits

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Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park

Only the educated are free.

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Education

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Lake Tahoe

Practice yourself, for heavens sake, in little things; and hence proceed to greater.

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Motivation, Practice

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Bahamas

We have two ears and only one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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Communication, Listening, Speech

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Caracao

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

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Character, Example, Leadership, Visualize

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Caribbean Sea

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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Action, Affirmation, Self-esteem, Vision

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