Echoes

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

Through hardship to the stars.

He who endures, conquers.

So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

Through endurance we conquer.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Relentless toil conquers all.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for man to go.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows: long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard.

Greatness means strife for nation and man alike. A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.