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Quotes About Fortitude

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
~ Louis L'Amour
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
~ Beverly Sills
It's not worthy of human beings to give up.
~ Alva Reimer Myrdal
Never admit defeat!
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Patient endurance attends to all things.
~ Teresa of Avila
He conquers who endures.
~ Anonymous
To bear is to conquer our fate.
~ Thomas Campbell
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it, and not be smashed by it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
~ Bliss Carman
I bend, but I do not break.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
In the clutch of circumstance, I have not winced or cried aloud; Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed.
~ William E. Henley
God Almighty hates a quitter.
~ Samuel Fessenden
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
~ Buddha
Endure, and preserve yourselves for better things.
~ Virgil
Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.
~ Virgil
What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
~ Thomas Fuller
People can bear anything.
~ Philip Slater
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
~ Euripides
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.
~ Meridel Le Sueur
Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
~ William Shakespeare
At any rate, you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!
~ Theodore Haecker
When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
~ George Cukor