Epictetus Quotes

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

I don't really do indulgences. I'm more interested in discipline, goal setting, and performance.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to well, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to do.

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

I commit to the controllables. That's one of the things I live by.

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

I just try to control what I can control.

We need to hold ourselves accountable for the work we do and the choices we make.

We talk to our players all the time, 'Just control what you can control.' It's no different in life.

You go year to year and you can only control what you can control.

What we can do is control what we can control.

You have to be able to shut out everything else, all the distractions and criticism. There's a lot of work that went on off the pitch, a lot of conversations, to make that happen.

You just have to know yourself well enough to know what's important. And when you do that, things just don't get in your way. You don't allow them to.

I only focus on what I can do.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.