Echoes

He that can have patience can have what he will.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Through endurance we conquer.

He who endures, conquers.

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.

My Son, patience and humility in adversities are more pleasing to Me than much comfort and devotion in prosperity.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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.

Relentless toil conquers all.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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.

The quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reverses and apparent defeat.

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

It is good for us that we sometimes have sorrows and adversities, for they often make a man lay to heart that he is only a stranger and sojourner, and may not put his trust in any worldly thing. It is good that we sometimes endure contradictions, and are hardly and unfairly judged, when we do and mean what is good. For these things help us to be humble, and shield us from vain-glory.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.