Epictetus Quotes

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

Hope and certainty are the enemies of peace.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

It's unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It's unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources.

I've always had people around me who will love me for me, regardless of whether the football went well or if I'd have had to go down a different route. I've always felt that no matter where I've been or what I've been doing, I've always had that to fall back on, which is comforting.

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.

His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay.

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

Bad chances were better than no chances.

I encourage you to accept that you may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.