Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

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

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Strength and struggle travel together.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.