Echoes

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

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

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.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

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

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.

He who endures, conquers.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

Through endurance we conquer.

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

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

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

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Through hardship to the stars.

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

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.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

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.

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.

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