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
  • Voice
  • Financial

• 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

• In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. There simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.

  

  Betsy Lerner
  • Books
  • Danger
  • Emotions

• I sincerely believe that there is nothing truly great in any man or woman except their character, their willingness to move beyond the realm of self and into a greater realm of selflessness. Giving back is the ultimate talent in life. That is the greatest trophy on my mantel.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Woman

• “It's a queer thing, growing up. The years pile up, Hap, but at the same time I'm still ever age I ever was. When we stood before those sea-giants, I felt five years old, awed and scared. When I see a pretty lady, I'm eighteen again! And when my bones remind me, I feel all of my sixty years. All those ages are still inside me, all at once. The years stack up like sediment, and the layers remain.”

  

  P.W. Catanese
  • Years
  • Growing Up
  • Ages

• The country wanted booze and I organized it. Why should I be called a public enemy?

  

  Al Capone
  • Country
  • Organized
  • Booze

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

  

  Epictetus
  • Desires
  • Achieved
  • Fleeting