Epictetus

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
– Epictetus

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
-Epictetus

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, “what is the right thing to do now?”
-Epictetus

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
-Epictetus

The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response.
-Epictetus

Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
-Epictetus

Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
-Epictetus

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
-Epictetus

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
-Epictetus

Books are the training weights of the mind.
-Epictetus