Quotes About Fortitude

il dolore si è distillato, mi ha avvilita ma non mi ha spezzata.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

no lo vivirán como una cesión desde la debilidad, sino como una concesión desde la fortaleza, y quien se siente fuerte no necesita polemizar.

she decided to break things off (...) with a determination that left no room for ambiguity or remorse, and perhaps had also made her immune to pain.

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

A man's confidence only pays when everything else just stays aways in his life.

The patience period of a person should not prolong so much because of insensitive people that s/he oneself becomes patient.

There is a big battalion of people always ready to prove the right points as wrong, so how a person can remain morally strong and for how long.

My life might not turn out to be easy I thought. I just hoped I'd turn out to be strong.

We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint....

Be bold! That's one way Of getting through life. So I turn upon her And point out that, Faced with the wickedness Of things, she does not shiver.

I have saved myself—what care I for that shield? Away with it! I'll get another one no worse.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. Rather, it's the mastery of fear

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

That's what most people lack: having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

I was never going to be one to just go away quietly and get on with things in the shadows.

Americans never quit.

You're not a loser in anything until you quit. Don't quit.