Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Epictetus Quotes
ControlDisciplineFreedomModerationSelf-Control Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
BrevityCommunicationRestraint Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
HumilityImprovementLearningSelf-Acceptance If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
AccountabilityEducationPersonal GrowthWisdom 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.
InfluenceMotivationPositivityRelationshipSelf-Development The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
ControlMindsetReactionResilienceResponse It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
ContentmentDesireMinimalismSatisfactionWealth Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
ConsequenceInner StrengthSelf-ControlSelf Mastery Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
CommunicationListening We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
DevelopmentGrowthPatience 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.
AmbitionExcellence One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
EducationFreedomWisdom 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.
Self-Improvement If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
MindsetPerceptionResilienceSelf-Control It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
HappinessPeacePersonal GrowthProsperityVirtue 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.
AuthenticitySelf-AcceptanceSelf-Knowledge Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
DisciplineSelf-ControlWisdom It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
FaithIndividualityPersonal JourneyTolerance All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
ContestsPersonal ResponsibilitySelf RelianceVictory You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
AcceptanceAlignmentRealitySurrenderWisdom 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.