Epictetus

"How can you grow if you never allow yourself to be uncomfortable?"

"Your reputation is not your concern; your character is everything."

"When you blame others, you surrender your own power."

"The true measure of wealth is how much you can do without."

"Seek not to be liked, but to be worthy of respect."

"If you judge another harshly, you reveal your own deficiencies."

"The natural world is your greatest teacher if you know how to listen."

"Success lies in willing what is, not in wishing for what is not."

"Your potential is unlimited; your excuses are optional."

"The person who masters their mind masters their destiny."

"In the face of injustice, silence is complicity."

"Every obstacle is an opportunity to prove your worth."

"To be truly humble is not to despise yourself, but to know yourself."

"The greatest victory is the conquest of yourself."

"No one can rob you of your free will."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"It is impossible for a man to be truly free while enslaved to his body and passions."

"You are not upset because of the things themselves, but because of your judgments about them."

"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control."

"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."

"The universe is a single, unified whole. All things are connected to all other things."

"Nothing is shameful except what is truly base."

"If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures."

"Lay hold of this truth: Lead the life that nature demands, and you will never be poor."

"You will always be frustrated if your idea of reality is wrong."

"When you close your doors against the poor, do you only shut out the poor? No, you shut in yourself."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"It is not he who reviles or strikes you that insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."

"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."

"Other people's opinions of you are not within your control, only your own integrity is."