Seneca the Younger Quotes

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

When all else fails, start running!

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

What separates the winners from the losers is that winners are able to handle problems and crises that they never imagined would occur. You hit the floor, but what counts is how fast you can get up and regroup. Failure is simply part of the equation.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

When I hear bad news I look at it as another leadership test that will determine how successful Go Daddy will become. So I no longer dread it. Instead, I enjoy the game of finding the very best way to deal with it, and take great satisfaction in having a hand in resolving the issues that come my way.

Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

Things are going to go wrong. The great chefs are the ones that don't let it fluster them. They just move through it.

The mantra I used was 'find a way.'

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.