Quotes About Fortitude

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, Wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, Are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." —Lady Diana Cooper, 1965

If you are going through hell, keep going

Winston S. Churchill

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away… people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

Withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well."15

If you are walking through hell, keep walking!

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

SUCCESS IS NOT FINAL; FAILURE IS NOT FATAL; IT IS THE COURAGE TO CONTINUE THAT COUNTS.

Without Courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

A wall of crystal, utterly immovable, began to tower up in the Narrows, and against this wall of inhibition no weapon could be employed. The 'No' principle had become established in men's minds, and nothing could ever eradicate it.

Never, never, never, never give up

We must be ready... to take the rough with the smooth. We must have spirits so constant that we can derive from misfortune added strength, and if we are cheered by victory, we are also inspired to greater efforts by rebuffs. We cannot tell how long the road will be. We only know that it will be stony, painful, and uphill, and that we shall march along it to the end.

When everybody else is bending with the wind, very few people will lean against it.

The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.

It's amazing how willpower can build walls.

I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.

We've got a motto here—you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can. Guy like Aron, he shows the rest of us what we can do if we dig deep.

The heroes of the past are untouchable, protected forever by the fortress door of time—

Scott Jurek resumió el credo no oficial de los Jóvenes Pistoleros con una cita de William James que usaba para cerrar todos los emails que enviaba: «Más allá de lo extremo de la fatiga y el sufrimiento, encontramos cantidades de alivio y poder que nunca habíamos soñado con poseer; fuentes de fortaleza nunca antes puestas a prueba porque nunca habíamos empujado la puerta de oclusión». Conforme

I used to regard dish-washing merely as an ignoble chore, a kind of hateful discipline which had to be undergone with knitted brow and brazen fortitude. When my wife went away the first time, I erected a reading stand and an electric light over the sink, and used to read while my hands went automatically through base gestures of purification.