270+ Best Inspirational Epictetus Quotes About Life, Success & Love
Best Inspirational Epictetus Quotes
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”-Epictetus
“The highest levels of education come from reading the smallest letters on the page.”-Epictetus
“It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.”-Epictetus
“What upsets people is not things themselves, but their opinions about these things.” -Epictetus
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”― Epictetus
“When we are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” –Epictetus
“Everything has two handles – a good one and a bad one; the same with human beings – they can be handled by the good or by the bad.” ― Epictetus
“True education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”- Epictetus
“Healthy people have knowledge of what is good and what is bad, but they are not envious of those who are healthy.”-Epictetus
“If you want to be happy, don’t ask what the world needs; help it by being useful.” –Epictetus
“It is not things that upset people, but their opinions about these things.”-Epictetus
“Happiness is the only good – all others are merely means to this end.” – Epictetus
” I am the master of my mind, and it will obey me.” –Epictetus
“A person should know how to refrain from anger even when he has been wronged”-Epictetus
“We are disturbed not by things, but by the views we take of them.” ― Epictetus
“Don’t be disturbed at being hated or loved, but at not being loved or hated.” ― Epictetus
“Do not be afraid of death so much, but rather of never beginning to live.” –Epictetus
“When we are offended, we turn our tongues on others and stop up our ears ourselves.” –Epictetus
“The way to be happy is not to wish for what you don’t have, but to wish for what you do have.” ― Epictetus
“When people ask me, ‘What are you doing?’ I say, “I am trying to make myself happy.”” ― Epictetus
“If someone attacks the wrong person at the wrong time, that’s no concern of his.” –Epictetus
“If you want to be free, start by curbing your desires.” –Epictetus
“I didn’t do what I was going to do, so I did the other thing.” ― Epictetus
“Every man thinks he is in a position of power when he holds a high office, but he really isn’t.” –Epictetus
“The mind should be free from desire, not enslaved to it.” –Epictetus
“When we are angry, we try to arouse in ourselves anger in our opponent, so that when our feelings have cooled we can give him an imaginary thrashing.” –Epictetus
“Do not be disturbed when people hate you, but rather rejoice.” –Epictetus
“I’m not running away from anyone or trying to escape from anything; I’m only trying to find out what it is that I really want and what it is that truly matters for me.” ― Epictetus
“God gives every man his own burden.” –Epictetus
“Disease in your body, evil in your soul; and the one condition is as much a matter of choice as the other.” –Epictetus
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” — Epictetus
“A person is not made bad by one act, nor good by one act.” ― Epictetus
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” –Epictetus
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything that happens!” -Epictetus
“Get rid of the judgment, get rid of the ‘I am hurt,’ and you get rid of the hurt.” –Epictetus
“Life is short and so are the things of life.” –Epictetus
“It is not what falls from our hands, but what we pick up in our hands that matters.” — Epictetus
“Our nature is not such that we cannot bear to be mocked and laughed at.” –Epictetus
“If you want to be happy, don’t ask what the world needs; help it by being useful.” –Epictetus
“We all love the same thing, but we love it in different ways.” -Epictetus
“A person’s character is like a mask; you take it off when you go inside.” –Epictetus
“I don’t think it’s good to fuss over trifles, such as what kind of a day I’m having.” – Epictetus
“If you feel no pain, then no harm has been done to your body. But if you feel pain, then damage has been done to you.” -Epictetus
“Realize that your desire to get what you want is a desire for happiness and freedom from pain. But is also a desire for something outside yourself, as well as a fear of not getting it. This means that getting what you want will never make you happy or free from pain.” – Epictetus
“There is no single road to happiness. It is not as if you can choose to follow one path and then that’s it. If you want to be happy, you will have to keep an open mind, allow yourself to change direction as necessary.” – Epictetus
“The more patient and tolerant we are about our own feelings, the less trouble we’ll have with other people who seem totally unreasonable.” – Epictetus
“Nothing outside of us can hurt us.” -Epictetus
“Do not yield to the false persuasion that you would be better off dead than alive without your child.” –Epictetus
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” – Epictetus
“The point is not to live a restricted life, but to live without stress and worry.” – Epictetus
“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and also the body itself and its parts as well as property. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, office, and also everything that depends on chance or an external cause.” –Epictetus
Epictetus Quotes about Control
“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.” – Epictetus
“Our lives are shaped by our mind; we become what we think.” – Epictetus
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” -Epictetus
“Everything has two handles: one by which it may be borne, another by which it cannot.” -Epictetus
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” -Epictetus
“Do not let your soul become entangled again with the desires that held it down in the prison of the body.” -Epictetus
“Be free of opinions: never say ‘I think,’ but ‘I am.'” -Epictetus
“Remember, there’s only one thing you can do – just what you did before.” – Epictetus (That’s not saying much, is it?)
“The chief hindrance to freedom is our attachment to pleasure.” – Epictetus
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”― Epictetus
“Happiness has no desire, but contentment. It does not seek its own good, but that of others.” -Marcus Aurelius
“If you want to be free, start by curbing your desires.” -Epictetus
“Do not fear death; it is the one event that will pass away.” – Epictetus
“It is better to go to bed supperless than to rise from it a beggar.” –Epictetus
“Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”- Epictetus
“Choose the things which you can also do without tomorrow.” –Epictetus
“If you have no character at all, you will fail in both private and public positions.”-Epictetus
“What difference does it make what we do? We only drag ourselves along like somnambulists affected by an undertaker’s knife.” ― Epictetus (quoted by Frankl)
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.” – Epictetus
“It is not what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” ― Epictetus
“Feed your desires, and you will starve at their table.” –Epictetus
“You are not a mere fragment of an entity, you are the whole of an entity.” –Epictetus
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” – Epictetus
“Your reason must convince you that your deservings are worth nothing or else it will make your pride unbearable.” -Epictetus
“The key to a happy life is to know how to deal with things that are out of your control.” – Epictetus
“In life, most of us battle not against what is impossible, but against what is possible.” – Epictetus
“Don’t be negative about what you can’t control.” – Epictetus
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them.” –Epictetus
“Of all things natural which can happen to a man in this life there is none more grieveable than to be deceived about the character of a friend.” -Epictetus
“No one is free who is not master of himself.” –Epictetus
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.” – Epictetus
“People are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.” –Epictetus
Stoic Epictetus Quotes
“No one chooses to be unhappy, though some have to accept it as part of their job.” – Epictetus
“Not what happens to you, but how you react to it, is important.” – Epictetus
“If you look for pleasures in this life, you will never find satisfaction.” –Epictetus
“Remember that all who seek happiness and pleasure fall into pain and sorrow.” –Epictetus
“Be content with your lot. If you want more, then seek to improve it. If you are dissatisfied with your lot, then blame yourself for having been born.” –Epictetus
“It is your character that destroys you, not the things you have done.” – Epictetus
“There is no way around pain and death; there is just enduring it and dealing with it.” –Epictetus
“The way to get rid of fear is to practice the art of not letting it in.” – Epictetus
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them.” –Epictetus
“There is nothing honorable in being ungrateful for benefits received. If you do not use them to the best of your ability, then you are not grateful but rather a scoundrel.” –Epictetus
“Your reason must convince you that your deservings are worth nothing or else it will make your pride unbearable.” -Epictetus
“Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one. If it is his pleasure that you should act a poor man, or a cripple, or a governor’s wife, see that you act it naturally.” – Epictetus
“If someone does wrong by you, remember that they do wrong because they think it is right for them to do so. Therefore, the way to deal with such wrongs is not to do wrong in return, but to speak kindly and patiently with them.” – Epictetus
“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and also the body itself and its parts as well as property. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, office, and also everything that depends on chance or an external cause.” –Epictetus
Epictetus Funny Quotes
“The only way to stop worrying is to try to think of something else.” -Epictetus
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, spend our days in salubrious activity, and have out life thoroughly and completely wrecked.” -Epictetus
“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Epictetus
“Remember that those who are sick with age and life’s other ills need you most.” –Epictetus
“Be careful not to do anything out of greed, but to do everything for the sake of virtue.” – Epictetus
“A man is disturbed not by what happens, but by his opinion about it.” -Epictetus
“What is the reason for your failures? The better part of them is caused simply by your judgment being dull and unperceptive.” -Epictetus
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” –Epictetus
“Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.” – Epictetus
“I am dying from within, while you are slaying me from without.” -Epictetus
“Don’t commit to anything that you can’t make a wholehearted commitment to. And don’t expect that anything will be handed to you. Life is a series of choices.” -Epictetus
“A man who always has the same diet and the same opinions from he is a little boy will never have that wisdom which comes with age.” -Epictetus
“Those who are not disturbed by their failures are like those who do not sail ships or go into war; they never know what it is like.” – Epictetus
“If you don’t know what you want, ask someone who does. If you still don’t know, then ask three people; then nine; and eventually all the people who you meet on your way.” –Epictetus
“Happiness is the only good thing that’s never different… it’s always the same… whether we have more or less of it.” -Epictetus
“It is more important to be free from fear than to face it.” -Epictetus
“I am not merely the master of myself, but of my body too.” –Epictetus
“Something which does not exist is nothing at all.” – Epictetus
“It is better to suffer wrong than do wrong.” -Epictetus
“He who loves life has everything under his control; while he who loves death does not know either good or evil.” -Epictetus
Epictetus Quotes Love
“There is no way around pain and death; there is just enduring it and dealing with it.” – Epictetus
“The way to get rid of fear is to practice the art of not letting it in.” – Epictetus
“Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one. If it is his pleasure that you should act a poor man, or a cripple, or a governor’s wife, see that you act it naturally.” – Epictetus
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them.” –Epictetus
“Remember that those who are sick with age and life’s other ills need you most.” –Epictetus
“The way to get rid of fear is to practice the art of not letting it in.” – Epictetus
“Those who are not disturbed by their failures are like those who do not sail ships or go into war; they never know what it is like.” – Epictetus
“If you don’t know what you want, ask someone who does. If you still don’t know, then ask three people; then nine; and eventually all the people who you meet on your way.” –Epictetus
“Don’t commit to anything that you can’t make a wholehearted commitment to. And don’t expect that anything will be handed to you. Life is a series of choices.” – Epictetus
“A man who always has the same diet and the same opinions from he is a little boy will never have that wisdom which comes with age.” -Epictetus
“There is no way around pain and death; there is just enduring it and dealing with it.” –Epictetus
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.
Epictetus Quotes The Art Of Living
“People are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.” -Epictetus
“It is better to suffer wrong than do wrong.” -Epictetus
“The only way to stop worrying is to try to think of something else.” -Epictetus
“It’s impossible for someone who isn’t good enough at math to know whether or not two times two really makes four.” –Epictetus
“Remember that those who are sick with age and life’s other ills need you most.” –Epictetus
“Happiness is the only good thing that’s never different… it’s always the same… whether we have more or less of it.” -Epictetus
“Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one. If it is his pleasure that you should act a poor man, or a cripple, or a governor’s wife, see that you act it naturally.” – Epictetus
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” –Epictetus
“If someone does wrong by you, remember that they do wrong because they think it is right for them to do so. Therefore, the way to deal with such wrongs is not to do wrong in return, but to speak kindly and patiently with them.” – Epictetus
“A man is disturbed not by what happens, but by his opinion about it.” -Epictetus
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” -Epictetus
