Quotes About Fortitude

Having given up totally on making it to anything else that day, I spotted a

The fire had been difficult, but not to a degree that had ever made him flee before.

Wisdom is prudent strength.

I was willing to be rejected...You have to be willing to be rejected. It was a trait that let him persist until he got what he wanted and avoid whatever he didn't want.

The nausea and the vomiting persisted, but she would not be defeated by them.

Medicine requires the fortitude to take what comes: your schedule may be packed, the hour late, your child waiting for you to pick him up after swimming practice; but if a problem arises you have to do what is necessary

Yet doctors remained undeterred.

accepted stoically, without fear or self-pity or hope for anything

Nothing surprises me now, I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

Do not let the hero in your soul perish...

Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death

Time to man up.

A dog, a woman, an' a walnut tree, Th' more yeh beat 'em, th' better they be! That's like us.

A dog, a woman, an' a walnut tree, Th' more yeh beat 'em, th' better they be! That's like us.

MARJORY walked pensively along the hall. In the cool shadows made by the palms on the window ledge, her face wore the expression of thoughtful melancholy expected on the faces of the devotees who pace in cloistered gloom. She halted before a door at the end of the hall and laid her hand on the knob. She stood hesitating, her head bowed. It was evident that this mission was to require great fortitude.

Painters, poets and philosophers have seen many things in the myth of Sisyphus. They have seen an image of the absurdity of human life, the futility of effort, the remorseless cruelty of fate, the unconquerable power of gravity. But they have seen too something of mankind's courage, resilience, fortitude, endurance and self-belief. They see something heroic in our refusal to submit.

wisdom is the ability to cope

It matters if you just don't give up.

Stephen Hunter

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.

the only mortal sin is giving up.

Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.