Epictetus Power Quotes

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

- 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

To have power does not mean that one can abuse the poor.

- Pablo Escobar

Everything is within your power, And your power is within you.

- Janice Trachtman

Beauty is power, A smile is its sword.

- John Ray

The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

- Ram dass

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.

- Robert Greene

The great power is often simple patience.

- E. Joseph Cossman

I love the word ‘rare’ and I want everyone to find the power in what makes them rare. We all need to embrace our uniqueness, stop comparing ourselves to others, and love ourselves more.

- Selena Gomez

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

- Benjamin Franklin