Quotes About Fortitude

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

But women have fortitude beyond that of a man, have an innate sense of trust in spiritual things.

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what's easy shouldn't determine what you do. Don't let difficulty dissuade you from living your best life!

Character is power."1 Booker T. Washington

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

Everyone is going to make bogeys and doubles and get bad breaks in bunkers. It's just kind of licking your wounds and taking what it gives you and move on.

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

I never thought I was the greatest wrestler, but I never gave up.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Brimming with fortitude, Wrigley wears its ability to brave the elements like a badge of honor. More so than any other ballpark in America, it has witnessed blizzards and subzero temperatures. More importantly, it stands as testament to decades of suffering fans, their pain littered throughout the seats and corridors.

Grenville Kleiser

Gretta Mulrooney

I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

Happy indeed are those to whom nature has given a thick skin and the armour of stoicism!

I will not say: that is because I am a city that does not want to surrender. Beseige me. It is because I am a deep, cool pyramid. Go through me. Pass through all my rooms and know my subterfuge. But you are passing right by the little room that I want to keep closed, and you don't see it. There is a secret. I myself do not know it, I just know it exists.

The power never to compromise. .. [to] have the fortitude.. .the guts!.. .the stamina for the long haul.

Growing old isn't for pussies.

Hawley had met some tough broads over the years, but they were honed that way from rough living. Mabel was something else. Her hardness was built into her very foundation, and she rammed that hardness into others, like an oil tanker barreling through a fleet of rowboats.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

I come from a tough stock.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

It is definitely hard when you're going against the tide. Of course, it is tough. But does that mean you can't do it? No, it depends on your strength, stamina and ability to take so much power against you.