Quotes About Fortitude

Living is more like wrestling than dancing: you have to stay on your feet, ready and unruffled, while blows are being rained down on you, sometimes from unexpected quarters.

not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason: and always, whether in the sharpest pains, or after the loss of a child, or in long diseases, to be still the same man;

It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you - inside or out

He was not easily moved and tossed up and down, but loved to be constant

The closer a person is to calm, the closer they are to strength.

The business of life is more akin to wrestling than dancing, for it requires of us to stand ready and unshakable against every assault however unforeseen.

Thou mayst burst thyself with rage, but they will go on doing the same things none the less.

Be like a promontory against which the waves are always breaking. It stands fast, and stills the waters that rage around it.

Not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason: and always, whether in the sharpest pains, or after the loss of child, or in long diseases, to be still the same man

It is a disgrace for the soul to be the first to succumb in that life in which the body does not succumb.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest. Ah, unlucky am I, that this has befallen me! No, but rather, lucky am I, that though this has befallen me, yet am I still unhurt, neither crushed by the present nor dreading the future.

Forget not in future, when anything would lead you to feel hurt, to take your stand upon this axiom: This is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

Budi poput krševite obale o koju se neprestance lome valovi. Ona stoji postojano, a oko nje uzavrele vode polako se smiruju.

Moja loša sre?a kriva je što me to snašlo.-Ne, radije reci: Moja je sre?a, što, iako me to snašlo, mogu sve to otrpjeti bez patnje, da me sadašnjica ne zdrobi, i da ne strepim pred budu?noš?u.

It is not merriment and wantonness, nor laughter or jesting, the comrade of frivolity, that make men happy; those are happy, often in sadness, whose wills are strong and true.

She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes.

Hell we can make for ourselves.

You wouldn't think it would be Toby--she was so tough and hard--but if you're drowning, a soft squashy thing is no good to hold on to. You need something more solid.

Margaret Atwood

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or, Don't be.

On the other hand, she had an uncanny resistance to physical pain: if she burnt her mouth or cut herself, as a rule she didn't cry. It was ill will, the ill will of the universe, that distressed her.

Sorprende comprobar con que rapidez se pierde la entereza en ausencia de otras personas.

Junker children, girls as well, were brought up to be tough and bear pain uncomplainingly.