Epictetus

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

Epictetus

Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it. Pay no attention to whatever people might say; this no longer should influence you.

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

When you let go your attention for a little while, do not fancy that you may recover it whenever you please.

Epictetus

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Epictetus

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

Epictetus

Don’t be prideful with any excellence that is not your own.

Epictetus

Don’t put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.

Epictetus