Epictetus Quotes

I can't control what people say, but I can control what I do.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

You can only control your own destiny.

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.

I am not driven.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

What I say is the only thing I can control.

You control what you can control.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

I just try to control what I can control.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.