Quotes About Fortitude

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

You can't give up in life. You just can't do it, no matter what it is that is going on.

I don't expect anyone to give me anything.

You gain nothing from giving up.

Giving up is the first way to fail. It does not exist for me.

I'm not made of glass.

Good businesses will survive good times and bad times.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of when he finds endurance the only alternative.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

How does one become stronger? By deciding slowly; and by holding firmly to the decision once it is made. Everything else follows of itself.

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.

Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so delicate!

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

We must know how to preserve ourselves: the greatest test of independence.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

that which does not kill him makes him stronger.

To be unable to take his enemies, his misfortunes and even his misdeeds seriously for long – that is the sign of strong, rounded natures with a superabundance of a power which is flexible, formative, healing and can make one forget...

That which does not kill us makes us stronger." ? Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so sensitive! We are all of us pretty sturdy asses and she-asses.

In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause.