Quotes About Fortitude

she was an army of one and was stronger than the invading force.

Little brother do you hear me Have a heart oh come get near me Misery is not my friend But I'll break before I bend

Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more.

Self-mastery is the ability to be comfortable being uncomfortable

For every move, there is a countermove. For every disaster, there is a recovery. He never lost faith in his own agency. With his fortune fast diminishing, it was time to act.

PITVITA ME TENET Ptuta m tenet.

How many you or I have outlasted doesn't matter, I think. There comes a time when the will just runs out. Doesn't matter what I think, see?

Bir ÅŸeyleri sürekli asaletle halleden insanlar var. O ÅŸeylerin ne olduÄŸunun önemi zaten yok.

the measure of us is not what we say or think, but what we are when we are tested by suffering.

My one redeeming strength of character may be that I am good when the chips are down. With success I am worse.

Richard Hough

Bullet-proof, right?' 'Mmm.' Kawahara tipped her head to one side. 'Depends on the bullet, I would say. But impact resistant, certainly.

Illegitemus non carborundum est ("Don't let the bastards grind you down").

he didn't feel pity for Macleod, despite all the humiliations and infirmities visited upon him. These he regarded as inevitabilities; indeed, he nowadays regarded most things that happened as inevitabilities.

Sometimes, the only way out of the fire is through the fire, m'boy.

Oh, I'm bowed, but unbroken.

I should not, if I were you, wish to be, because 'sterner stuff' is usually forged by hardship.

Sometimes being heroic means showing uncommon grace in the face of untenable circumstances.

But some things did not change... Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast against all odds.

Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him.

Sometimes you have to grab life by the horns and ride it,even if it tries to throw you.

You don't have

You can run, he said. But you'll only die tired.-Boba Fett

Southern Cheap is, I'm gonna eat stale cookies while I serve you these fresh, warm buttered biscuits. Yankee Cheap is, I've got ten million dollars in the bank but I'm gonna cut off the thermostat during a blizzard and here's my great-great-grandpa's mothballed coat from the War of 1812 if you don't have the character and fortitude to generate your own body heat.