Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.
Epictetus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Loose
Please
Hold
Purpose
Others
Order
Life
More quotes by Epictetus
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
Epictetus
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
Epictetus
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
Epictetus
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
Epictetus
Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own
Epictetus
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
Epictetus
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
Epictetus
No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.
Epictetus
I am always content with what happens for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
Epictetus
Ask yourself, How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?
Epictetus
Seek not the good in external thingsseek it in yourselves.
Epictetus
Silence is safer than speech.
Epictetus
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.
Epictetus
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
Epictetus
Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.
Epictetus
To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
Epictetus
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
Epictetus
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.
Epictetus
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Epictetus
Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything outside your control, train yourself not to worry about it.
Epictetus