Quotes About Fortitude

Great leaders have an air of confidence," he replied. "Subordinates need to look up to somebody who is still standing strong, like an oak, regardless of events around them.

Reality is, there is almost always something going wrong. Hard times are normal.

I go in alone, for there is no one for me, but I don't care, I tell myself; I'd expected no one. —Ruth

Character, the sportswriters said. They know it when they see it—it's the ability to dig down and find the strength even when things are going against you.

Mia, what is the most important thing for a soccer player to have?" With no hesitation, she answered, "Mental toughness.

Some let everything slide. Others, though feeling wretched, hang on. They drag themselves to class, keep up with their work, and take care of themselves—so that when they feel better, their lives are intact.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" or "Rome wasn't built in a day.

You are not easily rescued

A true lady could weather tragedy and heartache and keep her pride and dignity.

Before enduring it we will endure it.

It is not your right to feel powerless. Better people than you were powerless.

If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

As Winston Churchill said, 'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

You can send a man to hell, but you can't make him suffer.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

I've been patient, but where I'm concerned patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

Hold yourself.. why Winter is coming." Eddard Stark

Asha Greyjoy did not intend to be taken alive. She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

Remember, whatever the price...I'll beat it! I like living! Tyrion Lannister