Quotes About Fortitude

She alone knew that one must meet the world's madness with more madness.

Do not wish for beauty, Alice. Wish for cleverness instead. Wish for a strong back and a strong will. They will do you more good than red lips and dimpels.

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

We're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are.

CRAIG DAVIDSON Medium Tough

When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth     ââ'¬â€Persian Proverb

Thea isn't a girl. She's a whirlwind wrapped in a hurricane wrapped in steel.

I don't like running away," Michael; brought his eyes from the floor to mine. "I don't run, I don't hide, I don't cower, I don't beg, Cassie, because running and hiding and begging doesn't work. It never works.

Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true, that each time the world tried to break me, I became a little less breakable.

Even in the darkest of times, Xander was Xander. "You're going to drop one of those on your foot," I said. "That's okay," Xander responded cheerfully. "I have two feet!

It didn't matter if my ribs hurt. It didn't matter if every time I blinked, I saw Sora's fist coming toward my face. I needed a plan. I needed to be strong. So I just kept running, because come hell or high water, a girl couldn't afford to be weak or human at a time like this.

That's how she used to feel before any of this happened – strong and sturdy, like she could withstand a tornado.

Things become very simple when you have no choice, when there's nothing left for you but to endure as long as you can, and survive if you can.

Clement said it was like conditioning, prepar-ing for the ball-clutching moments of life while building your sphincter muscle. After lying in front of a freight train you can lie in bed in your underwear while two cops are visiting, asking about a certain black Buick—and while a mean-looking Walther P.38 automatic is hidden nearby at that very moment—and not worry about making doo-doo in the bed.

el árbol, donde arraiga, allí se queda. Le cortan los brazos; le hieren el tronco; llora por la herida su savia, que es su sangre... pero no se arranca a si mismo, porque no puede; no anda, porque lo suejta la tierra con su dulce pesadumbre...

Growing old is not for sissies.

No coward soul is mine.

Being repulsed continually hardened her

mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.

There's nobbut t' missis; and shoo'll not oppen 't an ye mak' yer flaysome dins till neeght.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...

Who never lost, are unprepared

And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest Room If in that Room a Friend await Felicity or doom. What fortitude the soul contains That it can so endure The accent of a coming foot, The opening of a door?