Epictetus

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

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

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.