Quotes About Fortitude

Sometimes a champion is the one who is ready to act, not the strongest or the bravest.

It ain't how hard you are when you're standing over top of someone that really matters. It's how hard you are when someone's standing over top of you that shows what you're made of.

She's going to get through this. Because she has to.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

The first gift is Strength. May you remember to call upon it whenever you need it.

Better to just hold on and try not to flinch.

Even Jesus, three days, died. Who is strong does not the strong. (Même Jésus, trois jours, est mort. Qui est fort ne fait le fort)

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.

Courage, dear miss! Courage! Business! The worst will be over in a moment; it is but passing the room-door, and the worst

Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

Now, I know I'm going to break your hearts, but I am forced to leave you. You must call up all your fortitude, and try to bear it... "Bob swore!" - as the Englishman said for "Good night", when he first learnt French, and thought it so like English. "Bob swore," my ducks!" (Chapter XXII)

The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer

For' (he observed), 'if every one were warm and well-fed, we should lose the satisfaction of admiring the fortitude with which certain conditions of men bear cold and hunger.

I have undergone too much, my friend, to feel pride or squeamishness now. Except - added Nicholas, hastily, after a short silence - except such squeamishness as is common honesty, and so much pride as constitutes self-respect.

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key.

All it takes is an apostrophe and a bit of an attitude adjustment to go from "impatient" to "I'm patient."

In your patience possess ye your souls.

Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.

It is easy to quit; I have quit at least a hundred times.

the Black Tortoise

went right to the spot, and would save putting up much else. Hannah shut her lips and tried to make the line of them look pleasant, but

Grant Barrett