Echoes

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

He who endures, conquers.

Through endurance we conquer.

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

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

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

I will either find a way or make one.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

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.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

I will either find a way, or make one.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

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.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Optimism is true moral courage.

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

Grace under pressure.