Seneca the Younger Quotes

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

You need bad times to become a better and strong player.

Hard times produce your greatest gifts.

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

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

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

Struggling has done a couple of things for me. It is an experience to have and it makes you appreciate the good stuff.

Losing makes you strong.

Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger.

Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.

Once you go through something and come out of the storm, you've been tested.

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.