Quotes About Fortitude

Another trembling leaf, eh? Well, it happens. She'll get over it." Sergeant Marge isn't exactly the warm and fuzzy type.

If I fall I just get back up and keep going. —Lindsey Vonn

We have to expect the unexpected and keep going, even without a map or direction.

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

Kutuzov told Prince Andrei that "time and patience are the strongest warriors.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

To be a Rock, and not to Roll...

I jade fast," she said

Man, life's going to keep pushing you sround, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

Better to know defeat from courage

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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They were not at all soft. Their

It's forty kilometers through hell, sir," said the sergeant. Mitty finished one last brandy. "After all," he said softly, "what isn't?

She was stronger alone…

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

Time did not compose her.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.