Quotes About Fortitude

You have armed me with strength for the battle.

A man who doesn't test the mettle of his soul isn't much of a man...

Tålamod är en av de viktigaste dygderna.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

The question, therefore, is, not whether a man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings.

No one should desire to live in irregular circumstances; but if by chance a man falls into them, they test his character and show of how much determination he is capable.

Entbehren sollst du - sollst entbehren. Thou shalt forego, shalt do without.

It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

You can always quit, so why quit now.

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.