Quotes About Fortitude

Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

I want to tell my granddaughter the lesson of the book. The lesson that they can beat you, but they cannot defeat you. I must tell her that.

With creation and function came peace. With mental fortitude came strength and the banishment of weakness.

To meet the depths of defeat is to be better acquainted with courage.

I am the light, she thought. I am not a maid. I am the light. Cold as a sword. I will show no weakness.

She met his gaze, agate to jet. She would not flinch, not even if the water turned into a river of fire. She stepped forward, bent her head, and set her will.

What other pearls of wisdom has she dropped in your ready ear?

In this light, her hair was the colr of sandstone. She was sandstone: a spire of rock rising from an otherwise featureless desert. No toeholds.

Without anyone to please, she no longer bent and swayed. No longer willow but oak.

By the time they saw the outer walls of Caer Leon, her legs were steadier though inside she felt a shiver like an ash key twirling too fast in the wind.

La volonté est ce qui lâche en dernier, bien après le cœur.

A big tree catches the wind' is a true saying.

You laugh, rap my woody shell with wicked whispers shaped like knuckles, then toss me aside. Lucky for me, I don't bruise easily. Besides, you loss is someone else's gain for I am coconut, and the heart of me is sweeter than you know.

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

I have my own strength.

Having strong enemies is a blessing.

There lies the whole crux of the matter; what cannot be prevented must be borne

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

This was the authentic voice of the educated British middle class, unshakable in its tone, meeting the war with light-hearted fortitude and an insistently civilized response. It is seen in the opening of a man's letter to a friend: "I think I can claim to be the only person in Southern England to have been blown off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen.

It's always too early to quit.

It's always to soon to quit!

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.