Quotes About Fortitude

And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

Om integer te zijn en alleen te kunnen wezen, moet je iets ontdekken dat het de moeite waard maakt ervoor te lijden.

Waarom huilen? Beter nooit huilen. Er is maar één keus: het loodje leggen of volhouden. Als je eenmaal hebt besloten vol te houden, huil dan niet. Nooit opgeven, nooit en nooit en nooit. Het is trouwens de vraag of je dit kan beslissen. Waarschijnlijk is het leven een brok lijm, waarin je bijt en waaruit je je tanden nooit meer los kan trekken.

If you consider yourself a victim, you are not going to have a good life; if, however, you refuse to think of yourself as a victim—if you refuse to let your inner self be conquered by your external circumstances—you are likely to have a good life, no matter what turn your external circumstances take. (In particular, the Stoics thought it possible for a person to retain his tranquility despite being punished for attempting to reform the society in which he lived.)

Epictetus: "Always to seek to conquer myself rather than fortune, to change my desires rather than the established order, and generally to believe that nothing except our thoughts is wholly under our control, so that after we have done our best in external matters, what remains to be done is absolutely impossible, at least as far as we are concerned.

Many, on hearing Ebert's story, would use the word unlucky to describe him, but a much more fitting word would be unvanquished. During the last decade of his life, he experienced enough setbacks for several lifetimes and yet was not embittered by his fate. It was a triumph of the human spirit.

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

William C. Davis

Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.

Out of the night that covers me,Black as the Pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance,I have not winced nor cried aloud;Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance.

A gentleman can live through anything.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go

I've been through hell and just barely got scorched.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.

I'm strong," the woman replied. "I can take this." Henry said, "You have always been strong, Leah, but a sweat is not about enduring. It is about yielding.

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you.