Epictetus Quotes

God made you a masterpiece - be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

I pray a lot and it has helped me throughout my whole career to stay calm and focused.

My faith has really been the biggest asset of my career. It has grounded me and let me focus on what's important.

At a very young age, I wrote down the goals that I had so I could always see what I wanted to accomplish. And I would look at that goal sheet and think "I still want to do this."So I'd decide "I'm not quitting."

To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.

Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

There's a lot in Scientology that develops confidence because there is peace, I think, that I've gotten just to know that what I do know, I do know.