Quotes About Fortitude

I have learned to suffer in silence.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today

That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment. Men and women with immense willpower are generally solitary types and give off a kind of coolness. Many people mistakenly think that (they) are cold (people) when nothing could be further from the truth.

so you , too , must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person

Only those who fail to recognize that inner strength will say, I lost, and be sad.

The high road is littered with pot shots.

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain't-got kind of stamina.

Where I come from, the attitude to have is to not quit.

But she was as they always were: strong, quiet, determined to prevail no matter what it cost them, brave in the face of sorrow.

him." She always told herself

You have more balls than a Christmas tree.

You might as well take your punishment and get it over with

If you aren't normal, it's because you're tougher, saner, cooler than normal.

And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.

Sam Spade: When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it.

3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs.

Be Strong, Be brave, Be True. Endure

Courage was the beginning, being unafraid, moving ahead, through small hardships, not turning back. Courage was simply a form of moving forward.

We've got some unholy badasses in here, as you know. But nobody