Quotes About Fortitude

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

We are a race of tit-men...

that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through!

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

What a different aspect will courage put upon the face of things!

but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.

I want to see what life makes of you. One thing is certain - it can't spoil you. It may pull you about horribly, but I defy it to break you up.

One must have the patience of radium buried beneath a Himalayan peak.

After that I can face the world

It hurts? Good.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old, Be bold! be bold! and everywhere-- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly

Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys.

I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul. I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.

for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown

With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword

I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.