Quotes About Fortitude

Plunge a heated sword in oil, and any small flaw will turn in to a crack. But quenched in blood as you were, none of you broke. You were only hardened.

Pain makes you strong.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong. It will hurt. Pain makes you strong.

Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break.

Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

Unele fiin?e sunt ca ni?te zerouri, le trebuie o cifr? înainte, ?i numai atunci nimicnicia lor dobânde?te o valoare neb?nuit?. Eu nu pot dobândi valoare decât printr-o alian?? cu o voin?? puternic?, neînduplecat?.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve." Good one, Leonardo.

She was a woman with the strength to move mountains. She was a woman as weak as a child.

She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable.

I aint never had height, but boy I got heart.

Even when Im on my back, Im never backin down.

Lilith Saintcrow

It wasn't easy, but she was used to swallowing.

nothing the western nations can do can stop her or keep her down.

It is better to wear out than to rust out." —President Millard Fillmore

Hard work is good for the soul," she would say. "And it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself, because you don't have time.

The jerboa] survives depravity not by adopting habits of better-known species but by adapting creatively to the unique rigors of its environment. Although Moore's animals do have innately poetic qualities, such as the jerboa's rhythmic leaps, the poems emphasize what she would later identify as her most valuable assets as an artist: persistence and fortitude. Her animal poems are both instructions in the art of survival and acts of survival themselves.

Heather learned from her immigrant parents not to complain, not to look back, not to blame others, not to be weighed down by regret, but instead to put her head down, work relentlessly, and soldier ahead.

There were of course exceptions, but on the whole the "intellectuals" among us withstood the hardships of the journey resignedly and patiently. They proved to be tougher, quieter, more uncomplaining than many men from other walks of life who were physically stronger and physically better trained.

A obstinação pura e simples é mais durável que a coragem, embora não seja tão