Seneca the Younger Quotes

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

In prosperity remember adversity.

I'm thankful for everything good and bad that happened to our band.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either. And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship. I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion. Whether I wish these things or not, they’re going to happen. And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes.

You have to go through the lows to go through the highs as well. It's something that's made me into a man.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either. And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship. I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion. Whether I wish these things or not, they’re going to happen. And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes.

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

It is easy to react if everything is going great.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

My background wasn't one blessed with all the luxuries in life. Nothing is forever and I realize that.