Quotes About Fortitude

I must have ice in my veins to do what I just did. I expect the ice to melt...But it doesn't. It just gets colder and colder...And I welcome it.

A warrior is heart and mind. It is not how we hunt and fight that defines our success, but how we face tragedy, how we rise above it. This is how we prove we are true warriors.' - Leopardfur

With this life I give you endurance. Use it to keep going, even when you feel as though all hope and strength have left you.

With this life, I give you courage. You will know how to use it.

With this life I give you courage. Fear will always pull at your tail, but the courage I give you now will always draw you on.

With this life I give you courage

closing her ears

It's not fair." "Life isn't fair. Stay

next words.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

As for Walter—he was a man constantly beset by tiny pinpricks of fate.

Even if life sometimes knocks you down, you're going to get right back up again.

That which does not kill us," I said, "has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

As Conan the Barbarian famously said, "That which does not kill us does not kill us.

Here is a bit of man's wisdom for you – when you think things can't get worse, they usually do.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

No, I do know that I was born To age, misfortune, sickness, grief: But I will bear these with that scorn As shall not need thy false relief. Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam; But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.

Of all the strands in Operation Fortitude, none was quite so bizarre, so wholly unlikely, as the great pigeon double cross, the first and only avian deception scheme ever attempted.

I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased, but stand firm, crouch, square off, meet an attack with something like resistance, even if it kills them.

Despite the bumps, and there would be more, Tim would remain cool in the face of adversity.

Knock me down, it's all in vain I get right back on my feet again