Echoes

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

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.

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

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.

Through endurance we conquer.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

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

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

He who endures, conquers.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

All the real money in investment will have to be made—as most of it has been in the past— not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements.

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

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.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

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

Slow and steady wins the race.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.

Relentless toil conquers all.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.