Quotes About Fortitude

Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.

I drew my divinity up, cold and bracing around me, and went to open the door.

Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.' - Chiron

Même le meilleur des fers devient cassant à force d'avoir été trop battu.

The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly.

The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly. They're disaster-prone.

Be men of courage; be strong. —1 CORINTHIANS 16:13 NIV

When the going gets tough, the tuff get going.

Do not pray for easy lives my friends, pray to be stronger man!

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

know that this is a very long way, therefore patience is necessary in this

Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.

Roberta se quedó estoicamente sentada, con las manos debajo de las piernas.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once

There was no latent snobbery in us; we didn't find any in them. It was only that we could feel a deep and sincere difference between us and them, a difference which everyone struggled with awkward fortitude to bridge.

Rob Leininger, via

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

My parents believe in the principle of 'sink or swim,' or 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger ? or it kills you." From "The Education of Robert Nifkin

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Knowing what to do is useless without the emotional strength to do what you know.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

even after every emotional accident, the show must go on.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.