Quotes About Fortitude

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. Unless it's polio.

Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.

She didn't feel she had the fortitude for all those Tudors, they were so relentlessly busy – all that bedding and beheading.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Press on, press on, men.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.