Epictetus Quotes
Browse 16 quotes from Epictetus, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
“What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.”
“Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.”
“We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.”
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
“He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“You become what you give your attention to.”
“Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.”
