Veronica Roth Quotes

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

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

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.

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

To the stars through thorns.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

We are graduates of the school of patience.

Every day, across our state, we see grit and resilience.

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

Our blood don't run. Sometimes we want to. Sometimes we ought to. But we don't ever run from anyone or anything.

I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life—though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.

I must endure & endure & still endure.

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.