Quotes About Fortitude

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back.

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

No one can take it away from you.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

loneliness is a great teacher and a master test of character

At a certain point, it would seem, you have to stop caring, and stop trying to protect what someone else is set to destroy.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

Suffer more now, suffer less later.

What you feel doesn't matter in the end; it's what you do that makes you brave.

Un cafè non s'arrefuta mai.

There are always a few drops left in the bottle of indignity.

What plant could flower under the cold sun of Reagan?

Most of us have everything we need to get through a crisis; we just have to tap into it.

said that metal underwear thing.

We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

ADAMANT  (A'DAMANT)   n.s.[adamas, Lat. from Gr. that is, insuperable, infrangible.]1. A stone, imagined by writers, of impenetrable hardness. So great a fear my name amongst them

Depend on it, I will defend this little citadel to the utmost.

This iron world (the same he weeping says)Brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state:For misery doth bravest minds abate.Spens.Hubberd's Tale.

Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there... and switch the bl**dy thing on yourslef!

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.

What defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back.

Nut up, Ben would have said if he was there, although probably not to her face.