Andre Norton Quotes

'Oz' means strength - and it also means courage.

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

He who voluntarily confronts tremendous odds must have very great internal resources to draw upon

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

I've been strong my whole entire life.

I think just that dog inside of you. When things suck, just to still fight.

I love fighting and will always have the heart of a fighter.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

I guess I was a pretty tough kid.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

I have the strength to endure it all.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.