Quotes About Fortitude

Even though a lot of people died, a lot of heroes were born. Often it was the most unlikely of people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. –RALPH WALDO EMERSON

STERCUS FIT. Latin for "Shit Happens.

but some people don't care as much about pain. They know it, they're used to it; it may not be an old friend, but it is an old companion.

I was raised to fight to the end. You never give up, no matter how much it hurts, no matter what stands in your way.

That gal's got gumption, don't she?" Dobro marveled. "That gal's got what it takes.

But where there is no fear, there can be no courage.

Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.

This was how you did it. This was how your spirit stayed strong. This was how you looked death in the eye and defied it.

The girl was silent too, grim- faced, straight-backed. She did not try to hurry. There was no need. Nothing that had happened could be undone.

Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, sl#t!

I'm way too up to back down.

Strength is not something you have, it's something you find.

La voluntad es determinación, firmeza en los propósitos, solidez en los objetivos y ánimo frente a las dificultades.

It is difficulties that show what men are

Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall.

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.

Survival is not enough. Sardine

Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.

Pick yourself up and fight another day" is as good a motto as any, in my experience.