Quotes About Fortitude

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it

The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

Men, today we die a little.

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

The man with courage is a majority.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.