Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Epictetus Quotes

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Priorities Religion Sacrifice Treasure Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Discipline Self-Control Wisdom It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Happiness Peace Personal Growth Prosperity Virtue If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Action Discipline Writing If you wish to be a writer, write.

Balance Moderation Pleasure Self-Control If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Freedom Self Mastery No man is free who is not master of himself.

Contests Personal Responsibility Self Reliance Victory You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Divine Trust Self-Ownership Self-Responsibility God has entrusted me with myself.

Empowerment Freedom Independence Knowledge Overcoming Adversity Only the educated are free.

Mindset Perception Perspective People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Caution Consequence Control Safety Wisdom Silence is safer than speech.

Challenge Character Self-Discovery Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Accountability Education Personal Growth Wisdom To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Control Discipline Freedom Moderation Self-Control Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Brevity Communication Restraint Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Humility Improvement Learning Self-Acceptance If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Consequence Inner Strength Self-Control Self Mastery Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Mindset Perception Resilience Self-Control It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Self-Improvement If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Communication Listening We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Education Freedom Wisdom We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Development Growth Patience No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Contentment Desire Minimalism Satisfaction Wealth Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Ambition Excellence One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Control Mindset Reaction Resilience Response It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Influence Motivation Positivity Relationship Self-Development The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Guilt Inner Conflict Sorrow Transformation You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Faith Individuality Personal Journey Tolerance All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Authenticity Self-Acceptance Self-Knowledge Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Acceptance Alignment Reality Surrender Wisdom Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.