Quotes About Fortitude

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

When one must, one can.

I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

We do not 'suffer,'" said Garad. "We endure.

Dear ones, wisdom, fortitude, strength, and hope cannot be learned in death. Life is not about reward and punishment, said Xuen. It is about understanding, accepting who oneself is right now, in order to know what to change, and how.

Ask any of my brothers, nothing stops me. No one stops me. I got the name Steele because I'm unbending.

while courage is not in itself one of the primary virtues, it is the quality that makes the exercise of the virtues possible.

Friedrich Nietzsche: Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich st

I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies

He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!

All we can do is strive to accept our fate with grace, whatever it might be.

Tapi kau sudah melakukan apapun yang bisa kau lakukan, dan ketika kau tidak bisa melakukan apa-apa lagi kau berdamai dengan takdirmu, dan kau tidak melawannya tanpa guna. Itu adalah kebijakan, bukan kelemahan - Katrina

Val McDermid

Both learned that from hardship, a side of people emerged that they had not known. The People had thought themselves to be strong, yet they had been weak. And the two old ones whom they thought to be the most helpless and useless had proven themselves to be strong.

There are things stronger than the strongest man...

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. Les Miserables, page 674

He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.

Her heart ached, but she took her resolution. It will be seen that Fantine possessed the stern courage of life.

There are two stages - living on little, and living on nothing. They are like two rooms, the first dark, the second pitch-black.

Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown.

to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything, except get into debt. Rather than borrow, he did not eat.

That it was no doubt a dark hour, but that he should get through it; that after all he held his destiny, evil as it might be, in his own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to that thought.