Quotes About Fortitude

I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay.

Diana Gabaldon

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.

To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage; something that went beyond human instinct.

For your sake, I will continue—though for mine alone Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I would not.

Over the years, I'd seen a lot of sweet, amiable, biddable patients, who succumbed within hours to their ailments. The angry, irascible, difficult sons of bitches (of either sex) almost always survived.

shoved those pusillanimous images firmly back into the

box with me, so there was little I could

I said I don't propose to die," William assured him. "And I don't need help.

I'm always ready to be attacked.

I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

I don't give up easily.

I'm a guy that's all about not trying to take the easy way out or get out of things too early.

So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.

If someone hit you in the face 7 times, you're not just going to smile on the eighth.

It helps to know how to lose. You know it is not the end of the world, and you pick yourself up and move ahead.

I have the strength to endure it all.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

I like English football so much - it is very strong.

I kind of almost get enjoyment out of adversity in life.

I've been strong my whole entire life.

My thing was I had attitude every night. No matter who I played, who I went against, what team, you've got to have an attitude.

Bebe —lo animó con un mohín gracioso de la boca. Él la miró desconcertado. —¿Pretendes emborracharme? No están las cosas para diversiones. —Bebe

SELF-CONTROL, which was universally required of samurai. The discipline of fortitude on the one hand, inculcating endurance without a groan, and the teaching of politeness on the other, requiring us not to mar the pleasure or serenity of another by manifestations of our own sorrow or pain, combined to engender a stoical turn of mind, and eventually to confirm it into a national trait of apparent stoicism.