Quotes About Fortitude

What's the trick? the man asks. The trick is not caring that it hurts.

And gosh, I wasn't a great athlete. I wasn't big and strong. But I had two things going for me. I could take a punch. And I didn't give up.

Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees!

The human person cannot face up to a bad outcome, that's just the deal.

So much of life with infirmity came down to dignity and will.

already with needles inside. "Tig just

He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.

You have to get up every morning and decide again, in the cold lonely light of day, am I brave enough to stick this out?

But you could run out of gas on boyish, that was the thing. A message that should be engraved in every woman's wedding band.

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

zivot je tezak, ako si slab.

In the end, it's the bitches of the world who abide . . . and as for the dust bunnies: frig ya!

History, for better and for worse, is made by those who never give up.

But if he imagined this gift from his enemies had driven a stake through the Testament, he was mistaken. It would never die.

I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and show yourself a man.

things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.

We are mortal, and the visage of failure is heinous to us. But we are not required to succeed. It is required of us only that we hold fast in every gale and let come what may.

I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.

The harder you are on yourself, the easier life is on you. Or, as they say in the Navy Seals, the more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty.

Failure may be an option but quitting is not.

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That's how strong my love is.

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.