Epictetus Quotes

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

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.

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

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

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

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

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

Great faith must have great trials.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me.

It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

It’s not the struggles that define you; it’s how you overcome them.

Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.