Echoes

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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.

Through endurance we conquer.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

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.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

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

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

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

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

He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.