Ludovico Ariosto Quotes

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.

Real gold fears no fire.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

You haven't broken me Taker, you haven't broken me, I'm still standing.

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Even a falling star still shines.

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

Never lift. Never stop believing.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.

Believe in yourself. Trust the process. Change forever.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short, but I've got 10 All-Star games, two World Series championships, and I'm a very happy and contented guy. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.

Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled.