No great thing is created suddenly.
Quote by Epictetus
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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Epictetus Quotes
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- God has entrusted me with myself.
Best Quotes
- In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
- To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
- I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.
- How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year.
- Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
- My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
- I love marriage.