Pietro Metastasio Quotes

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

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

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

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

It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures - it’s inevitable. But unless the spirit of the last year, here and elsewhere in the country and around the globe, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.