Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
Epictetus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Appointments
Arrive
Events
Happen
Inspirational
Happens
Appointment
More quotes by Epictetus
I am not eternity, but a man a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
Epictetus
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
Epictetus
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
Epictetus
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.
Epictetus
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
Epictetus
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Epictetus
It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.
Epictetus
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
Epictetus
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
Epictetus
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
Epictetus
It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
Epictetus
There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
Epictetus
A thing either is what it appears to be or it is not, but yet appears to be or it is, but does not appear to be or it is not, and does not appear to be.
Epictetus
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
Wish that everything should come about just as it does.
Epictetus
You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.
Epictetus
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
Epictetus
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus