Quotes About Fortitude

Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. (Enoch Root observes six-year-old Isaac Newton)

So you're just going to give up? That's the plan.

Well, we all have our good days. That one bad night can ruin.

Well, I may get drunk, the Widow admitted, but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't stagger.

But, you know, shit happens even when you have a shit shield with you.

Nelson DeMille

Nelson DeMille

He is a good man, and will climb up to the Six Blissful Seats. He has known sin and trouble and it has not made him bitter; he has known sorrow and it has not made him sad. In these last months that have been granted to him he is trying to do good, not

That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour.

That deliverance is of no avail which does not depend upon yourself; those only are reliable, certain, and durable that depend upon yourself and your valor.

You don't know how strong something is until you actually test it.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

When you take someone's best shot in the mouth, there's nothing more they can give you.

I need to show my son that when things get hard and rough - not if, when - you have to keep going; you have to move forward.

Even if I do miss a shot, I'm going to be comfortable to get back up there and shoot the same shot again. Make or miss, I'm not going to be frustrated but move on to the next play.

You just take your hits on the chin and move on, that's life.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

I've been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I've learned that I have to be tough in this world.