Echoes

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

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

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I will either find a way or make one.

Through endurance we conquer.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

Never despair.

He who endures, conquers.

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

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

I will either find a way, or make one.

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

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

It is difficulties that show what men are.

While I breathe, I hope.

Optimism is true moral courage.

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.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

Things are not so painful and difficult of themselves, but our weakness or cowardice makes them so.