Quotes About Fortitude

Like, bring on the daggers, get the salt, let's do this thing.

Brace yourself, Effie.

Life had beaten the shit out of him, but instead of folding, each strike and blow had forged him harder and stronger and tougher. He was straight steel now, nothing lingering of the boy he'd once been.

She would die fighting. It was just how she was hardwired: She was invincible—and that wasn't her ego talking. The sum of her experience was, no matter what was done to her, she could handle it.

A veces el hecho de que te vieras obligado a ser fuerte era suficiente para volverte fuerte.

Às vezes, o facto de sermos forçados a ser fortes era o suficiente para nos convertermos, realmente, no que devíamos ser.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken.

I never hid under the bed after losing, didn't cry for two weeks.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she'd seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country - all around the world - who show that type of fortitude.

I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.

That's just never been me - 'Oh, this is hurt; that's why I'm playing like this.' That's just not the type of person I am.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

Quitting has always been the worst possible thing you can do in sports. It's downright un-American.

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

Wars are won in the will.

Whatever the challenge, never quit, never give up, never surrender.

Your shield must surpass your weaponry.

He who whets his steel, whets his courage.

In life, toughness and roughness go together.