10 Stoic Quotes on Growth Mindset

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

    — Epictetus
  • “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

    — Epictetus
  • “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

    — Epictetus
  • “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself.”

    — Epictetus
  • “No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”

    — Epictetus
  • “Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”

    — Epictetus
  • “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”

    — Epictetus
  • “If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.”

    — Epictetus
  • “Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.”

    — Epictetus
  • “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

    — Seneca