Seneca the Younger Quotes About Attitude

• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

• It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Attitude, Health

  "Hippolyus", CCXLIX in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 356-357), 1922.

• A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happy, Attitude, Men

• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Attitude, Adversity

• Everything hangs on one's thinking.

  Seneca the Younger

  Attitude, Thinking

• The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Peace, Attitude, Perception

• Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Attitude, Mind, Principles

• There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

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