Echoes

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.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

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.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

It is good for us that we sometimes have sorrows and adversities, for they often make a man lay to heart that he is only a stranger and sojourner, and may not put his trust in any worldly thing. It is good that we sometimes endure contradictions, and are hardly and unfairly judged, when we do and mean what is good. For these things help us to be humble, and shield us from vain-glory.

My Son, patience and humility in adversities are more pleasing to Me than much comfort and devotion in prosperity.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

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

I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

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.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.