Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Seneca The YoungerRead
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Interpretation
Enduring criticism is essential for those seeking power.
Seneca the Younger highlights the importance of resilience in the face of negativity when pursuing power and influence. The ability to withstand disdain and criticism is a fundamental skill for anyone who aspires to leadership, suggesting that adversity is an inherent part of the journey towards authority and success.
In practice
In a motivational speech about leadership, one might say, 'As Seneca the Younger wisely noted, to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.'
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."
Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it.
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.
To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! . . . Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it!
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