Quotes About Fortitude

I hold death in my pouch, I cannot die.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

To me death is better than the defensive.

Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.

The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it—either that or you were sunk.

Something always came along to make you keep living

True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer, and the strength to die.

In his list of fruits of the Spirit, Paul includes one that we translate with the archaic word "long-suffering." We would do well to revive that word, and concept, in its most literal form to apply to the problem of long-term pain.

I have learned the power of surviving.

Thomas More once told me: lion or king, never show fear or you are a dead man.

She was a woman whose spirit had been hammered and forged until she could only ring true. Compared with the rest of us sho was silver, while we were pewter, a common of lead and tin.

It is the old smile of gritty courage that all women show who have gone through hard nights and come out without betrayal.

I do not prepare for defeat. To do so would be to betray myself.

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

One is never so strong as when one is broken.

Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.