Echoes

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.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again.

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

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

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

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Through endurance we conquer.

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

He who endures, conquers.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

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.

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

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.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

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

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.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Life is a journey, not a destination.