Quotes About Fortitude

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Man's capacity to dig himself in, to secrete a shell, to build around himself a tenuous barrier of defence, even in apparently desperate circumstances, is astonishing and merits a serious study.

Where hard life makes some maudlin to the point of weeping at mere memory, it grants others a curious immunity to suffering. Like the slaves who work the charcoal pits, their skin grows hardened to the pinch of fire and coals, insensible to burning things.

Let me find the strength to do this, he said. And let me be strong enough to protect them from what's coming.

I'm forged hard out of pieces, like a bar of solid steel. There's nothing soft left. I'm too broken to be broken anymore.

My anger is a shield. My anger is a weapon.

Her spirit could not be bent, yet her rage found little purchase . . .

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

Regardless of how hard the winds of chance might blow or how heavy the weight of experience might become, Stormy always stays on her feet...

You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.

it was clear to Jane that Sara, in spite of her intelligence and fortitude, had internalized those words and could not bleach them from the stained self-image with which Simon had left her.

She is not happy, nor is she unhappy; she takes pleasure in her endurance.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

They were good at enduring: adversity was the touchstone by which they proved their value to themselves.

indomitability.

The thing to understand is that you have to do what you have to do, always and without complaint. That's the way.

I was born under a glass heel, and have always lived there,'" Tim quoted.

Colt had never shown fear, never issued a complaint about pain, remained always the definition of stoic. This wasn't merely a scream of pain

Like it or not, you need to know how to do this. Your future depends on it. You give up on this, you will give up on the next difficult thing, and you are too smart and too strong to start giving up.

no courage in the world can hold out in the face of neglect, solitude and persecution.

And she was-definitely-a woman who did not shrink from gauntlets, but stepped up to them, and said, Okay, bring it. Bring your worst. I will get back up. Every time. I will not shrivel and die. So watch out.

Teddy wished that his mother were still alive so she could teach her grandkids you had to get hard, strong. The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took.