J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper.

Patience is emotional diligence.

There are going to be ups and downs, but you have to have a steady mindset, regardless of the situation you're in.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...

To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

When you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Patience is moral elasticity.

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.