770 Quotes by Epictetus

It's so simple really:  If you say you're going to do something, do it.  If you start something, finish it.

When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves, that is: our ideas about things.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world? Focus on your main duty

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

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.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has

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