Epictetus Goal Quotes

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus

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.

- Epictetus

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

- Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

- Epictetus

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master, He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him

- Epictetus

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

- Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

- Epictetus

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

- Epictetus

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

- Epictetus

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

- Epictetus

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- C. H. Parkhurst

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

- Dalai Lama

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

- Dalai Lama

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

- Ambedkar

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

- Brian Tracy

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill