Quotes About Fortitude

Some people have more guts than brains.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

I'm a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none.

If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strike—it isn't there!

I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

Being prepared isn't a matter of how much you practice. It's about knowing that even if you fail, you won't give up.

I refuse to think fear. I will think strong. I will think brave.

Some women, Ava realizes, would crumple in a pile and feel sorry for themselves, but not Jennifer. Jennifer puts on her gnome sweater.

backbone, Eddie informed Allegra that she would not have

it was all very well being decent when things were smooth; but we often had rough times given us to show what we were. [. . .] Perhaps we are to have it now. If we are, it's up to us to show how we can deal with it. And we shan't do that by wailing over it.

What cannot be cured must be endured, and Tristen excelled at enduring.

The wall stood firm behind him; his hands flattened on the stones, but they gave him no purchase and less strength.

Life is tenacious. Even on the brink of death, it holds the battlements and snarls.

The Mebd is unimpressed by suffering.

It takes more than blood and iron to wound me.

Arms folded across her rib cage, chin drifted, Perceval could have been a statue labeled defiance.

Admit nothing. An iron dignity is an unbroachable defense.

Olive had, of course, been born with a backbone, but she didn't exercise it very often.

But Miss Pym gave an impression, somehow, of having been attacked from within .

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.