Epictetus Quotes

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

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• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• We came up short on offense and that's on me.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Tactics

• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • May
  • Always

• Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Separate

• A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Good
  • Directors

• I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Financial
  • Voice

• If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Career

• Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

  

  James Stewart
  • Fear
  • Mistake
  • Judgment

• If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

  

  Jimmie Davis
  • Want
  • Guitar
  • Bigs

• Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.

  

  George Foreman
  • America
  • Should
  • Muhammad

• Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Hope
  • Victory
  • Talk

• I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Inspiration
  • Desires
  • Doubts

• We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Desires
  • Remembering
  • Ills Of Life

• The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Government
  • Worst

• I think it's fair to say there is a demagogic path that Europeans, South Americans, Asians have pursued, and we know where that leads. It uses xenophobia, it uses paranoia, it uses prejudice, it uses nationalism to really stir people up and to, you know, begin an us-versus-them contrast, which is dangerous and is not something we've had in our politics at a presidential level in America.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Prejudice
  • Paranoia
  • Xenophobia

• The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

  

  Epictetus
  • Desires
  • Achieved
  • Fleeting