Quotes About Fortitude

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.

Every rejection, every phone call from my agent to say, 'It didn't go your way,' I felt the layers of my skin growing. 'OK, cool, let's move on.' You have to get beyond the fear of rejection and plow on because it's intense.

I've been slashed, speared, elbowed, board-checked, butt-ended, and hit on the head as much as anyone. I just like to keep the ledger balanced.

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

One thing that's good is I don't lose it if some old mate goes 'bang!' and hits me in the face.

I'm a freak when it comes to holding on the ground; it's just almost impossible holding me on the ground.

If I can make it through homelessness, I can make it through anything.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

I was lucky I was blessed with the constitution of a horse.

It's how many times you get back up that defines you.

I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

Patient endurance is the supreme austerity.

Diane didn't worry, that was for less hearty women.

All the women here walked as if they were pushing against a monstrous headwind.

Just got to keep on keeping on.

I've actually started enjoying the Bath in a what-doesn't-kill-you-makes-you-stronger sort of way.

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

It isn't a mask that she wears to cover the past but an invisible badge of courage.

now." Emily pulled

only with hard work and extreme fortitude could one escape the road map created by where they are born, whom they are born to.

The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.

We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength.

good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

La sofferenza non è necessariamente un segno di debolezza; con uno sforzo di volontà è possibile sopportarla: la forza di volontà nasce da un severo autocontrollo, che è di per sè una forma di sofferenza volontaria