Quotes About Fortitude

Abused patience turns to fury.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me.

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.

In retrospect I am beginning to think of him as an Atlas who lacked muscle tone but who God damn well decided he was going to hold up the world anyway.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

Characer is much easier kept than recovered.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

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An upright man is always worth beholding—but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

A man can produce fortitude from his own vitals, but the true food of valor is example.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

Because even bigger than her sadness was her determination.

What makes you a football player is getting up after you get knocked down, or going out to catch another pass after you just dropped one. The harder the hit, or the worse the drop, the more important it is to keep going. That's the game. That's what a real football player does. If you can't do that, then you shouldn't play.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

I bleed like nobody else.

Courage comes normally to me.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

There ain't nobody going to run me out of nowhere.