Epictetus Success 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

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

- Marcia Wieder

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- John F. Kennedy

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

- Napoleon Hill

I failed my way to success.

- Thomas Edison

Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.

- Kobe Bryant

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

- Kobe Bryant

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

- Bill Gates

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein