Seneca the Younger Quotes

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

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

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

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

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

I have been through so much.

I am resilient like my mother and have the ability to face any kind of storm.

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

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.