Quotes About Fortitude

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island without a beach.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

siam forti quando siamo risoluti e pronti a morire

it's better to be sullen and strong than sullen and weak.

The rule of captivity is to bend, not break.

You need discipline most, when it's hardest to muster.

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

After all...you have courage in your heart.

life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder then life itself

Again, keep everything.

Sometimes shit happens even if you have a shit shield

Quitting is leading too.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

Difficulties break some men but make others

women had not weakened in their resolve to resist.

El hombre valiente no es el que no siente miedo, sino el que es capaz de conquistarlo.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

The fact is, I did not appreciate until much later in my own life what subterfuge and sacrifice it took to be independent and undefeated by the pressures of reality.