Echoes

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

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

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

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.

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

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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.

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

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Through endurance we conquer.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

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

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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

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

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

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

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

He who endures, conquers.