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Quotes About Fortitude

I'm the stuff men are made of!
~ John Wayne
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
~ Elbert Hubbard
A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits
~ Richard M. Nixon
A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Other men's pains are easily borne.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.
~ Norman Mailer
The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
~ Reginald Innes Pocock
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
~ Seneca the Younger
When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.
~ Edith Hamilton
I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.
~ Catherine Keener
Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
~ Horace Mann
Men can bear all things but good days.
~ Amelia Barr
Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
~ Anna Cora Mowatt
The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.
~ Charlotte Bronte
What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
~ Cormac McCarthy
No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He's broken because he doesn't keep going after those things happen.
~ Courtney Milan
There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.
~ Dan Hill
A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.
~ Eduardo Chillida
Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.
~ George Horace Lorimer
I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man.
~ George W. Bush
Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi