Quotes About Fortitude

It was a grim and evil fate, but I have never believed it did any good to flinch or yield for any blow, nor does it lighten the blow to cease from working.

Lion-hearted; her tremors braced with virtue, Philippa trotted on.

He had survived that. He would survive this.

I have nothing to lose,' Marthe said. 'So nothing can harm me.

I have given you nothing. I have shown you what was there in you already, and you have been man enough to destroy what is weak and to foster what is strong until it is unassailable.

It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

Arthur had almost given up. That is to say, he was not going to give up. He was absolutely not going to give up. Not now. Not ever. But if he had been the sort of person who was going to give up, this was probably the time he would have done it.

there was no reason why having a high iq would somehow protect you from the vicissitudes of life

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

It's no use resenting a thing that you've no power to stop.

She looked, Inspector Curry reflected, exactly as the relict of a canon of the Established Church should look—which was almost odd, because so few people ever did look like what they really were. Even the tight line of her lips had an ascetic ecclesiastical flavour. She expressed Christian Endurance, and possibly Christian Fortitude. But not, Curry thought, Christian Charity.

Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory

Never give in! That's my motto. Don't think of trouble and trouble won't come!

The world is becoming a difficult place to live in—except for the strong.

Su fuerza reside en la voluntad, no en su brazo.

I think, Madame, that your strength is in your will—not in your arm.

And you must remember that anyone who's mentally unhinged has a good deal of unsuspected strength.

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.