Quotes About Fortitude

Something I think that I'm good at is that I don't complain.

We need to show character whenever we concede a goal and try to make a comeback.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

It's so easy to just give up or get angry with the course or the conditions, but you can't do that.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

If you're in the middle of a field, surrounded by armies, left right and centre, you can't just say: 'I've had enough now, sorry.'

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.

Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.

As soon as people really get into the swamp - the scary swamp that is 'Fortitude' - there's no getting out of it. You need about six to seven episodes in to really go, 'This is what it's about.'

If you're able to build something on a strong foundation, you're not going to be easily swayed.

You don't have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they're not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

You can't just sweep me under the rug like I won't come back stronger and better.

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

I wasn't a person to cry or point fingers or find any sympathy.

I'm not a person who lives for sympathy.

Quando Omni Flunkus Mortati

I've never let myself get scared off anything in my life and I wasn't gonna start now. You back down once, there's no telling when it'll stop. You let yourself get scared and it never goes away. It fucks up your judgments.

Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately.

He was likely the only one who realized there was a will of iron under the porcelain.

Keep going, no matter what." --Reginald F. Lewis: Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Chairman, CEO ---

Charity is patient." I Cor. 13:4 Patience, says St. Thomas,1360 is a virtue attached to the virtue of fortitude, which hinders a man from departing from right reason illumined by faith by yielding to difficulties and to sadness. It makes him bear the evils of life with equanimity of soul, says St. Augustine,1361 without allowing himself to be troubled by vexations.