Seneca the Younger Quotes

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

Patience is moral elasticity.

Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Bear calamities with meekness.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it