Anne Bronte Quotes

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

You can and you must expect suffering.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

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.

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

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

We all survive more than we think we can.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

You have to stay strong when it gets tough.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

You have to be tough.

Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

When I’m running, there’s always this split second when the pain is ripping through me and I can hardly breathe and all I see is color and blur—and in that split second, right as the pain crests, and becomes too much, and there’s a whiteness going through me, I see something to my left, a flicker of color […]—and I know then, too, that if I only turn my head he’ll be there, laughing, watching me, and holding out his arms. I don’t ever turn my head to look, of course. But one day I will. One day I will, and he’ll be back, and everything will be okay. And until then: I run.