Quotes About Fortitude

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

a prow of rock

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Not until we're totally crushed do we show what we are made of.

When life flips you the bird, flip it the bird back. Scar tissue is stronger than skin.

According to Benjamin Franklin, "He that can have patience, can have what he will.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Courage, though, wasn't the absence of fear. It was what you did in spite of it.

I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me.

for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready

It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink.

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.

I have been holding a dialogue with myself and girding myself to stand fast without running.

it is something even to live through hours of obligation now, without screaming: gently, gently, stoic one.

Enough to snuff the quick Of her small heat out, but before the weight Of stones and hills of stones could break Her down to mere quartz grit in that stony light She turned back.

We must learn to suffer more.

Survival is your strength not your shame.

In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong are not washed away. I will be such a rock. Only give me a chance, sweet Zoria, and I will be a rock for my people.

Beneath the appearance of normality he is strong as Goliath, scaly and supple as a serpent.

Face it, Gary told her kindly. You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

There are all kinds of courage, you'll find yours.

I do not want the lying kindness and the gifts of men, nor of other than men. I am armed now.

most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

But inside your sob-sodden Kleenex And your Saturday night panics, Under your hair done this way and that way, Behind what looked like rebounds And the cascade of cries diminuendo, You were undeflected. You were gold-jacketed, solid silver, Nickel-tipped. Trajectory perfect As through ether.