Quotes About Fortitude

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you.

The unifying theme is resilience and faith. The unifying theme is being a warrior and a motherfucker. It is not fragility. It's strength. It's nerve. And "if your Nerve, deny you—," as Emily Dickinson wrote, "go above your Nerve.

Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.

Crap happens in life. It could happen tonight.

A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Fire tests metal, wine tests men.

Perseverance is everything.

Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle.

Fortitude is the mean between fear and rashness.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

Resistance wears us down and dims our light

Strength is forged out of struggle

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

That is why we got booted out. If they could have just squeezed us like an orange and squeezed the juice out, I think the juice would have been squeezed out of us, and all the goodness would have been sucked away. But it was a bit harder, wasn't it? It was more like the durian. You try and squeeze it, your hand gets hurt. And so they say, "Right, throw out the durian." But inside the durian is a very useful ingredient, high protein … And we will progress.

O]b wenig oder viel, niemand konnte mehr als sein Leben wagen. Jeder nach seinen Kräften und Anlagen – die Hauptsache: man widerstand.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. - Atticus Finch

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Don't run away from it, just because it's difficult.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Courage never means that you don't get scared It means the fear cannot stop you

There is nothing to do but put up with it. I have a cat's luck." Her indomitable will had begun to triumph over despair and apathy.

Patient endurance is a sign of progress.

Heather Brewer