Quotes About Fortitude

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

I'm already used to being a target, so I'm building a castle with the stones people throw at me.

I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.

Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible.

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.

There is always safety in valor.

La valía de un hombre se mide por la cantidad de enemigos que tiene.

through gritted teeth, "is to look through

My heart has been purified in the crucible of adversity.

Get up, girl, and dress yourself. Woman must have spunks to live in this wicked world. Christophine to Antoinette

Say die and I will die. Say die and watch me die.

I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never be destroyed.

For myself, with no one to love, a hedgehog spirit seemed best and I hid my heart in the leaves.

What doesn't kill you will make you stronger

We're becoming a nation of sissies.

Just remember," Mom said after examining the blisters, "what doesn't kill you will make you stronger." "If that was true, I'd be Hercules by now," Lori said.

Dad said High Lonesome, as the area was known, wasn't a place for the soft of head or the weak of heart, and he said that was why he and I made out just fine there, because we were both tough nuts.

Nothing can interrupt it yet all can break it.

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.