Quotes About Fortitude

I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.

A good woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it. - Princess Merida

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather

The dwarf stood his ground.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Our motto must be, "Non-Resistant Persistence.

You get stronger by strengthing your mind, not your body.

Tacheen is a domed medley of baked saffron rice and chicken, forming the shape of a cathedral ceiling. On first glance, the dish looks curiously like 'chelow', plain steamed rice; it is only after slicing through its center that the layers of fortitude are exposed; first buttered rice and almonds, then fried chicken and sautéed spinach, the yogurt binding them into a brotherhood of delicious play. 'Tacheen.

The latrine broke my lion heart.

Nothing could stop you. Not the best day. Not the quiet. Not the ocean rocking. You went on with your dying. —

Agnes Tattle was the only person he'd ever met who was strong enough to look life right in the eye and spit. It must be the mathematics in her background. Such courageous realism certainly didn't come from the study of English literature.

It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the okay.

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.

The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.

If I had heard that as many devils would set on me in Worms as there are tiles on the roofs, I should nonetheless have ridden there.

for Isaac was neither afraid nor terrified, but of his own accord obeyed his father and God. For not terror but spontaneous obedience and fortitude should be attributed to the saints. For fear signifies that sin is ruling, and sin was not ruling in Isaac, but an obedient spirit. Although the flesh fought back, nevertheless the spirit, which subjected the flesh to itself, conquered and gained dominion. But

We should give heed to what has been said by the heathen poet: "Do not yield to evils but proceed more boldly against them."15

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

You just had to keep going, day by day.