Echoes

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

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

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

Through endurance we conquer.

He who endures, conquers.

A man must shape himself to a new mark when the old one goes to ground.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

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.

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.

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

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

I will either find a way or make one.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

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

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

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

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

I will either find a way, or make one.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

While I breathe, I hope.