It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

The first qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation. Courage is only the second; hardship, poverty, and want are the best school of the soldier.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.