Quotes About Fortitude

The ramparts were infinite. So was his will.

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The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times.

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

What separates people, Stockdale taught me, is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.

Later he would declare that "not getting hit was like running through rain and not getting wet.

Sin importar que tan malas fueran las cosas, rendirse sólo las empeoraría.

You won't figure out anything if you give in to fear.

We can't give up. Ever.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

The best way to avoid danger is to be in a capacity to withstand it.

James R. Chiles

An old Churchill slogan popped into Gray's head. If you're going through hell, keep going.

Endurance is the crowning quality…

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

Hobie had an iron constitution. Whenever he came down with something himself, he drank a Fernet-Branca and kept going.

the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

all his life he had "endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.