Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.

"But how much more highly do I think of these men! They can do these things, but decline to do them. To whom that ever tried have these tasks proved false? To what man did they not seem easier in the doing? Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence."

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 1st century c. 64 AD.

Letter 104, 26 - Moral letters to Lucilius (Epistulae morales ad Lucilium),  translated by Richard Mott Gummere in 1917.

#wisdom #society #stoic #philosophy #ethic #entrepreneur #stoicism #life