Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Epictetus Quotes
Self-knowledgeAuthenticitySelf-acceptance Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
VictorySelf-RelianceContestsPersonal Responsibility 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.
ModerationBalancePleasureSelf-control If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
WisdomSelf-controlDiscipline It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
VirtueHappinessProsperityPeacePersonal Growth 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.
ToleranceIndividualityFaithPersonal Journey All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
ReligionTreasureSacrificePriorities Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
ExcellenceAmbition One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
WealthDesireContentmentMinimalismSatisfaction Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Self-ControlSelf-MasteryConsequenceInner Strength Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Self-Improvement If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
GrowthPatienceDevelopment 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.
PerceptionResilienceSelf-ControlMindset It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
RelationshipPositivitySelf-DevelopmentInfluenceMotivation The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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.
ReactionResponseControlMindsetResilience It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
ListeningCommunication We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
FreedomControlSelf-ControlDisciplineModeration Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
EducationAccountabilityPersonal 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.
CommunicationRestraintBrevity Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
ImprovementHumilityLearningSelf-acceptance If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
ForgivenessBrotherhoodRelationship If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
HappinessSelf-RelianceInner Peace The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
WisdomPatience The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
LearningKnowledgeSelf-AwarenessObstacleHumility It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
FreedomLiving AuthenticallyPersonal ChoiceAutonomy Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
ModerationTemperanceDrunkenness He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Self-awarenessHumilitySelf-improvement If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
Inner StrengthHeartSoul It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
SuccessEffortTrainingChallengeGoal Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Self-Development Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
HappinessContentmentAppreciationTrue Wealth Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
PerceptionAttitudePerspective Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
LossReturnTransienceAcceptanceLetting Go Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
Gradual GrowthTimingPatienceFruitful ProcessGrowth Stages Nothing great 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.