Quotes About Fortitude

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it--but all that had gone before.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it - but all that had gone before.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

plunge ahead, put one foot in front of the other, straighten your back and your shoulders and everything else that is likely to slump, buck up and go forward, and in this way, every obstacle, be it physical or only imaged, falls face down in obeisance and in absolute defeat...

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Still, one does what one must.

It's hell... Just hell. It's just plain hell... But you gotta go through with it.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

But then he remembered what George had told him about pain. You know what you can do, even if your body says quit. It's only pain. "It's only pain, he thought, hearing George's voice and seeing his eagle-face. If anyone would know, George would, he thought. And truly, he thought, it's the most useful one thing a body can know.

Já que é preciso aceitar a vida, que seja então corajosamente

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

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this. From what people have told me about her, she'd have given you hell!' 'Yes, she would.' He managed

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it.

Though you thrust a knife at my eyes, I will not flinch.

The best way to avoid danger is to be in a capacity to withstand it."45

What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on.

Courage follows action.

Its quietness was the quietness of strength. And the eyes were those of one who had walked through many a dark valley without flinching.

Until I am carried out, I will carry on.

We bear it as best we can,