“I don’t want to paint with a broad brush here, but every single contractor in the world is a miserable, incompetent thief.”
"If you don’t believe in love, what’s the point of living?"
- Ron Swanson
Love
"Crying: Acceptable at funerals and the Grand Canyon."
- Ron Swanson
Awareness
"There is only one bad word: taxes."
- Ron Swanson
Belief
"I’d wish you the best of luck but I believe luck is a concept created by the weak to explain their failures."
- Ron Swanson
Belief
"Live your life how you want, but don’t confuse drama with happiness."
- Ron Swanson
Happiness
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity