Quotes About Fortitude

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

An indispensable ingredient for spiritual maturation is the cultivation of fortitude: strength, forbearance, and patience.

Those who have suffered most show their eagerness to suffer more.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ray Mercer has the heart of a lion and a great chin.

Your reaction when you lose control in a situation is to try and hang on tighter.

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

I'm a realist and I'm not going to shy away from being knocked out.

I went goodness knows how long without a bath.

I got a granite chin.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain - it's just a great life - but, you know, it takes a lot of energy.

Tough, gritty, those are things that have been in me since I was a little kid.

That's a very nice compliment, for somebody to be described as having grit, having some gravel in the gut.

I like guts in my leaders.

I am not afraid, he said to himself.

comes from sturdy stock and knows how to work hard and take what comes.

la virtud que corona la perfección es la paciencia.

For Solomon says that, 'He who is not patient shall meet with great harm.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Bear it like a man, even if you feel it like an ass.

Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.