Seneca the Younger Quotes

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Every burden is a blessing.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

I think everyone has to have their mettle tested in a tough fight.

You know, I thought that this whole campaign had really toughened me up.

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.