Epictetus Quotes

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

You face distractions, you face adversity in life and you have to be able to handle it, you have to be able to fight through it and become a better man and become a better player because of it.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.