Quotes About Fortitude

In life, storms come not to hurt you but to make you stronger.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

No podemos pretender ser los primeros, o los preferidos, sólo somos lo que está disponible, los restos, las sobras, los supervivientes, lo que va quedando, los saldos, y es con eso poco noble con lo que se erigen los más grandes amores y se fundan las mejores familias, de eso provenimos todos, producto de la casualidad y el conformismo, de los descartes y las timideces y los fracasos ajenos

el peor de todos los tipos es el llanto por frustración; cuando lloras porque no puedes más, aunque no tengas un motivo aparente. Cuando pasas mucho tiempo siendo fuerte o creyendo que lo eres, creando un muro a tu alrededor que sirva de fortaleza, y de pronto, cuando menos lo esperas, te das cuenta de que no puedes cambiar las cosas.

Sí, tengo valor, pues sería inútil tener miedo.

Know inside yourself that you're strong. It's the only weapon that matters, and no one can teach that to you.

I bend but do not break.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

When hit in the stomach by a line drive, he wrote his parents that it was "to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present.

This lady is strong medicine, for external use only.

Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

For fortune delights to strike down those who are too high and to raise those who are low; and if we do not anticipate trouble, should it come, we shall face it with greater fortitude.

Non sono le grandi disgrazie della vita che esigono forza di carattere da noi. Chiunque può fronteggiare una grave crisi e rimettersi in piedi con coraggio dopo una tragedia, ma per sopportare le piccole noie quotidiane con il sorriso sulle labbra, ecco, per quello penso che ci voglia molto coraggio e determinazione!

I had a choice: to quail, or to harden. I hardened.

Jeanne M. Lee

I'm not saying you can live with it, I'm saying

After all I'd been through, I didn't need to be wiping other people's eyeballs off my cheek.

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You're on your own, like you've always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can't go forward anymore.

Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave.

When we become sorry for ourselves we make our misfortunes harder to bear, because we lose courage and can't think without bias.