Quotes About Fortitude

She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

I learned how to be tough, and that transcended into something else, that I wasn't going to back down from anything, academically, football wise, any challenge I was presented with.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

To know the things that I've overcome and came out the other side with my chin up and my chest out, things way bigger than any man could give me, I walked through things that most people couldn't withstand, and I came out with my head high and my chest out.

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

I may not be the biggest guy in the world or strongest guy in the world. I don't have those gifts. But I will take more punishment, and I'm willing to withstand more abuse.

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

To build a great business, you have to do something hard just to be able to withstand all the competition that will later come your way.

My body is durable, my body is able to withstand a lot of practices, a lot of punishment.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of women that have to be the victim and need to be saved, at all times. I don't necessarily think that's how it is, in real life, and I don't think that's how it should be in films.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

I've got a thick skull and big, thick bones that don't break apart easily.

For some reason, I have a thick skull.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

I've got a thick skin.