Echoes

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

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

He who endures, conquers.

Through endurance we conquer.

While I breathe, I hope.

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.

Optimism is true moral courage.

Through hardship to the stars.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

I will either find a way or make one.

We have surmounted all the perils and endured all the agonies of the past. We shall provide against and thus prevail over the dangers and problems of the future, withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well. We have, I believe, within us the life-strength and guiding light by which the tormented world around us may find the harbour of safety, after a storm-beaten voyage.

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

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

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.

I will either find a way, or make one.

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.

We will either find a way through these mountains, or we will make a way through them. No barrier of nature shall stop us.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

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.

Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it's unendurable . . . then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

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