Quotes About Fortitude

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

For the anvil never cries for the iron.

pain was weakness leaving the body.

If there is a will there is an A.

He's awful hard," she said. "I'm awful hard, too," LaChaise said.

Take a while to find all that out, but I won't lose any

John Sandford

If we're going to be fucked, Colonel, I prefer to get fucked on my feet instead of on my knees.

If we're going to be fucked, Colonel, I prefer to get fucked on my feet instead of on my knees." "You have a way with mental imagery, General

It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.

Anybody can break down. It takes a [real] man not to.

I don't mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don't want to get nibbled to death. There's a difference.

Tom grinned. "It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do. Well, thanks. We'll drag on." And he got in the truck and moved away.

Chorar é fácil; o difícil é aguentar firme.

Tom grinned. "It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.

don't mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don't want to get nibbled to death. There's a difference.

Each day my mother demonstrated great patience and the ability and eagerness to work very hard without complaint

The situation is unendurable, and yet he endures.

You only fail in life when you decide to give up.

If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a furnace of Stickings' making, and I had come out stronger.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Courage is not the absence of fear...