Quotes About Fortitude

No matter how much it hurts. You have to keep going.

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

Never let anything get in the way of your life. Because you will never know how painful it will be.

Be courageous, and persevere through the pain that life brings when you are trying to make something special happen in your life and in the life of others.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Failure is not an excuse to give up but it teaches our heart to become more stronger.

My hands were cut almost to blood by jagged shards of rock. My feet left stains where they stepped. The pain was welcome, ordinary and clean. So easy to bear it was laughable.

Contemplé su noble rostro; noble no por su belleza, sino porque, como el buen metal, había sido templado y golpeado hasta volverse fuerte.

I would live on, through each scalding moment to the next.

His voice was quiet. "You do not give things up so easily now as you once did," he said.

There was a long silence, and I almost thought he had not heard me. At last, he said: "Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.

But endurance had always been my virtue, and I kept on.

A bitch with a cliff for heart.

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

In gloomy moments, I think we are allowed to stay alive here but not to live, much less to enjoy ourselves or take pleasure in what we see when we look out of our windows or walk around our streets. If we have the fortitude to get up out of bed in the morning and get going to face the day, we should also have the freedom to rejoice, and I think the freedom to rejoice is being denied us when our senses are dulled at every turn by streets that are inimical when they are not simply sad.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather

Patience is the key to content.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Even pragmatic people needed a totem of goodness to buoy them against life's tyrannies.

Ha sido más recio que la miseria y que la burla.

By the way, it's harder to become less tough once you have it than it is to become tough.

Il n'y a pas de courage triste. [in Journal sous l'occupation]

47: Equal in strength, and rather then be less 48: Car'd not to be at all; with that care lost 49: Went all his fear: