Epictetus Quotes

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

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• It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Team
  • Attention

• The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Way
  • Best
  • Three

• We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • Career
  • Want
  • Girl

• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Know

• When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Work
  • You
  • Take

• I know Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons. We went to the same church. I'm pretty sure he's still Mormon. I left the church long ago.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Church

• That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

  

  Paul Valery

• If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

  

  Bjorn Borg

• I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • People
  • History
  • Ugly

• I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.

  

  Jon Hamm

• Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Care

• My first fight in Hamilton was against Rocky Thompson. Everybody was saying, 'Be careful, he can punch with both hands.' I'm saying, 'Look how skinny he is.' I was cocky. But he beat me. After that fight I said to myself, man, this is going to be a tough job.

  

  Georges Laraque
  • Job
  • Fight
  • Beat

• Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Problem
  • Understanding
  • Easy

• Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Army
  • Conquer

• Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

  

  George Washington
  • Choices
  • Enemy
  • Brave

• Conquer yourself rather than the world.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • World
  • Yourself
  • Conquer

• You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

  

  Epictetus
  • Conquer
  • Contest
  • Invincible