Quotes About Fortitude

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

The Old Man ain't afraid of hell

There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

There is no strong beer, just weak men

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.