Quotes About Fortitude

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

a former Norwegian army officer and

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

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.

Pure gold does not fear furnace.

As the Chinese proverb goes, 'Real gold does not fear the test of fire.

As Mark Twain said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

Why did they quit so easily? The answer may surprise you: They ran out of self-control.

All the way back, I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them.

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

I may be injured; I may even be wounded to the heart; but I'm not defeated yet.

This was something I had achieved by myself, without having to depend on anyone. No one could take it away. That's what I want for you, my Tara, my Bela. That's what it really means to be a fortunate lamp.

All through the history of the world, the virtuous have suffered for causes unseen. Learn from Nal and Damayanti to bear your misfortunes bravely. Like theirs, your evil times, too, will come to an end.

At what point does forbearance cease to be a virtue and become a weakness?)

Tunggu seorang laki-laki membalaskan dendam untukmu, dan kau akan menunggu selamanya. -Srikandi

I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them. That was what I'd work on.

But life is not inclined to let any of us escape.

Weakies, Breakfast of Chumps.)

Chris Grabenstein

Time to embrace the suck, as his soldier friends say.

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.

Survival has its own etiquette.

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit," Mamey

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit,