Seneca the Younger Quotes

I've always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.

In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is just as cold as you, so you shouldn't complain about it too much. You learn this as a kid, coming home crying from the cold, and Mother looks down and says, 'It's only a little frostbite. You're okay.' And thus you learn to be okay. What's done is done. Get over it. Drink your coffee. It's not the best you'll ever get but it's good enough.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

I've lost jobs before; I've had contracts not renewed, and it didn't get me down. I didn't get upset; I just keep it moving. That has always been the case, and that will always be the case. You must look out for you.

I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden.

No one can be patient who is not independent.

I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

You've got to teach yourself you can do your job no matter what happens.

Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.

With the amount of flops that I have seen in my career, one would think that my career would have been over long back. But it has sustained. And I truly believe it did because I lived life on my own terms.

You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent.

You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began

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

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

You have to be tough.