Echoes

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

He who endures, conquers.

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.

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.

Through endurance we conquer.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

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

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.

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

Through hardship to the stars.

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

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 cannot be eschewed must be embraced

If you're going through hell, keep going.

A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world. In the last analysis a healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.

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

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

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

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.