Quotes About Fortitude

My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence

Courage is the watchword Miss Armstrong.

It is not in victory that you learn how strong you truly are.

War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.

The human sprit can withstand much, but once broken, it crumbles like dust

But things were different when she was on her own. She didn't have to put a brave face on it.

Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

He may not have been born with guts, but he did not have to die without them.

This is another day, O Lord... If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely. If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly. If I am to lie low, help me to do it patiently. And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.

There is strength in calm").

It isn't ever delicate to live.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.

pero lo sobrellevaba con paciencia y estoicismo.

floor, with

la guerra había hecho aflorar toda su fortaleza y su coraje

He felt a bit like the von Ulrich house looked, battered and bombed and shot at but still standing.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

The more people challenge us, the more power we gain. We become stronger not under the tiny raindrops but under the huge hailstone!

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.