Joanna Baillie Quotes

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.

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

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

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

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

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

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

I have the strength to endure it all.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.