Epictetus Quotes

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

Improvement begins with I.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.'

I always want to grow and top myself.

My competition is with my growth to where I want to see myself.

I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.

There can be dramas in your life and you can get over them and become someone. You don't have to wallow in self-pity; you can actually use the experiences in your life to push yourself further and help others.

I've come to expect more out of myself - as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete - to reach a better place, a place I've never been.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

To help others develop, start with yourself.

Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Make personal growth a daily priority.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.