Quotes About Fortitude

Let us don our armor of control."-Lady Berwick

the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.

Our worst day brings out the best in us

It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb. —John Gotti CHAPTER

What we cannot change, we must endure without bitterness.

If you are going through hell, keep going. WINSTON CHURCHILL

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand boldly to it! Metal's worthless till it's shaped and tempered! More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage.

It just happens to be very important to me to win with the hand I was dealt.

It wasn't about being brave, or toughing it out, or any of that air-punching motivational language; all that was required in these moments was to keep plodding on, quietly, resolutely, without fuss or drama.

Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.

Without fear, there cannot be true courage

Not goddamn dead yet. Like I told you, the day I need someone to brush my teeth, wipe my ass, put me to bed in diapers, is the day I stop living.

Buck up, buttercup, you've come through worse.

IT DOES NOT MEAN TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO NOISE, TROUBLE, OR HARD WORK. IT MEANS TO BE IN THE MIDST OF THOSE THINGS AND STILL BE CALM IN YOUR HEART.

She swiped at her eyes. "Suck it up," she whispered fiercely to herself. "It's all good, no matter how hard it is." "I'm going to refrain from saying 'That's what she said' since you seem to be having a moment.

SonOfAMotherlessGoat

Ease off the martyr throttle.

Strength is the first virtue," Alera said. "That is not a pleasant fact. Its distastefulness does not alter the truth that without strength to protect them, all other virtues are ephemeral, ultimately meaningless.

And if I was to die, I was not going to go out in a gibbering heap of terror.

I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.