Joni Mitchell Quotes

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.

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

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

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

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.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.

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

Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you

I have faced many different obstacles in my life, and have always maintained a strong belief that no matter the circumstances, I could overcome those obstacles.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

Over the past six years I've had many difficulties. But I never lost my passion.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.

Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.