Quotes About Fortitude

You just have to get on with life, there's no alternative. You could curl up in a ball on your bed, but that's not going to achieve anything.

I think some guys are able to take more damage, some guys are more resilient than others.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

If you're extremely confident, taking a loss doesn't bother you.

Courage is action, not talk.

When you've been ridiculed and talked about as much as I have over the course of my career, pressure doesn't exist.

I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

I'm a tank, man.

When you still have something in the tank, it's really hard to let it go.

you should not allow yourself to be convinced by repeated failures,

I've swallowed enough sand that I'm going to shit cinder blocks.

Be a rock, James. Otherwise, you'll lose everything.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

A man is not born to run away." Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1921).*

Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.