Quotes About Fortitude

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit. —Meridel Le Sueur writer and activist

The greatest glory is being knocked to your knees and then rising again. Lombardi repeated this phrase often, until it rang in the head of every single Packer, like a ubiquitous radio jingle.

The firm of Strange had not been built on softness; what you stole from it, you were welcome to keep.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

There's no room at the chuck wagon for a quitter's blankets.

Some men are so well-tempered they can lose it every day and never run out.

A GALWAY LAMENT You watched—through April from a place of forbearance … called fortitude.

Courage is always rewarded.

Lon not only lost his horse; he was struck in the breast by a bullet, but his dispatch book and pistol, which were tucked in his breast pocket, took the full impact of the projectile. "It only knocked the breath out of my body," he remembered.

He that is down can fall no lower.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Nélida Piñon costuma dizer que, de alguma forma, todos os dias alguém bate à nossa porta e nos convida a desistir. Não desistimos de teima quem sabe até meio burra.

Nada em mim foi covarde, nem mesmo as desistências. Desistir, ainda que não pareça, foi meu grande gesto de coragem. Some like this Nothing in my attitudes was cowardly, even the renunciations. Giving up, though it does not sound good, was my great act of courage.

Walls and stones may fall in the wind when it blows like a Thracian torrent, but a god stands forever

El que reciste, gana.

He who gives back at first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs success, has never been, is not, and never will be, a hero in love, war or business. - Frederick Tudor

You just work through it. You just hang in there.

And I bet she'll be a stronger person because of what she's lost today. I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

Women can handle the worst kind of pain.

Y apuesto a que se convertirá en una persona más fuerte gracias a la pérdida de hoy. Tengo la sensación de que después de pasar por algo así, uno se vuelve más o menos invencible.