Seneca the Younger Quotes

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

Life kicks you hard but you have to be a man to come back.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.

I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

This world is not for cowards.

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.