"It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
- Seneca
Courage
"When one has lost a friend, one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation."
- Seneca
Relationships
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
- Seneca
Success
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."
- Seneca
New Beginnings
"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
- Seneca
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