Quote

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

Epictetus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Stop
Wish
Explicitly
Become
Aspire
Persons
Identify
Person
Vague
Kind
Extraordinary
Time
Motivational
Wise

More quotes by Epictetus

Image
Difficulty shows what men are.
Epictetus
Image
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
Epictetus
Image
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
Epictetus
Image
What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
Epictetus
Image
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
Image
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
Epictetus
Image
Wish that everything should come about just as it does.
Epictetus
Image
It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
Epictetus
Image
What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
Epictetus
Image
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
Epictetus
Image
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
Epictetus
Image
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
Epictetus
Image
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
Epictetus
Image
Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
Epictetus
Image
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
Epictetus
Image
It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
Epictetus
Image
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.
Epictetus
Image
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
Epictetus
Image
Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.
Epictetus
Image
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
Epictetus