Quotes About Fortitude

modified his position by agreeing that suffering was not necessarily a sign of weakness, but insisting that we could toughen ourselves against it with a strong will; strength of will coming from strict self-discipline, a kind of self-imposed suffering. Farid added to his notion of suffering as an anti-

endured the pain expressionlessly

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

No-one, and nothing, could hurt me. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

I am the type of person who just gets on with whatever life throws at you. I have a 'do first, worry later' kind of attitude.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

I've fractured my skull twice, damaged a kidney, snapped a cruciate ligament in my knee, and broken all manner of bones, including my jaw. And I count myself very lucky it hasn't been worse!

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

If I have a bad hair day, I just think, 'Well, it will be an OK hair day tomorrow. Just put your head down and go.'

It's always too early to quit.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

I respect the hell out of everyone who does a network show. That is a marathon. It's so many episodes, and it can be a meat grinder. Anyone making a network show, and on top of that making a very good network show, that's an insane feat of Herculean endurance and fortitude.

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance," wrote John D. Rockefeller.

For the first time, Ax saw that there could be strength in serenity, and steel beneath stillness.

my mother had shown me how to shuck off fear and have the courage of a thousand moons.

And a man who can make himself merry in the face of those coming disasters that assailed him, as disasters do so many, without grace or favour, is a true hero.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit.