Quotes About Fortitude

To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness

at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

It is difficulties that reveal a person's character,

Still, most testimonies focus on creativity as a form of defiance—the dogged fortitude with which many attempt to pursue art, or music, or writing, or poetry, serves as an antidote to the pointlessness of their "real" paid work.

It's all very well to have a kind heart, but kind hearts don't rule castles.

Some men are possessed of great strength of mind; and even when they pursue external objects, are not much affected by a disappointment, but renew their application and industry with the greatest chearfulness. Nothing contributes more to happiness than such a turn of mind.

Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

It's how we train." "To drown?" "To never quit. Ever.

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time. She became positively lethal.

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

A thick hide is a gift from God.

That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger.

I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

God holds with the strong.

God has given him an attitude that he can deal with anything football throws at him. (on Michael Owen)

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.