Quotes About Fortitude

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

The heart apparently doesn't stop that easily.

I might think I can't take it any more, that I can't go on any more, but one way or another I get past that.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

In any case, I wrote, I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.

You can't go anywhere if you resign yourself to being attacked.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things—unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings....

No matter how tired the body gets, one must never let the exhaustion enter one's thoughts.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things--unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings. That's got to be the most difficult strength of all to make your own. I know....

Number is no strength, courage only is.

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

I'm not somebody who's going to panic if things go the wrong way.

I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.

People all the time come up and ask how we do this or how we do that, and there isn't any secret to it. You're just getting bashed with something, and you're either a man and you take it, or you're not. People don't realize the toughness of WWE superstars.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Yeah, I just don't break. I don't. And there's only one person I know who's a better non-breaker than me, and that's Will Forte from 'SNL.' You can not make that guy break. I'll break eventually - Will Forte will never break.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

I have never been one to run when tragedy strikes.

Losing a game is not a tragedy after experiencing border raids and having to eat beetles because you are out of rations.

A lot of fighters have skills, they have talent. The one thing that you can't train is a strong mind.

I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.'

Pushing through when times get difficult, perseverance. It's an important trait to have as an athlete, and as a human being in general.