Quotes About Fortitude

Robert A. Carter

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.

No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,The heroes of old,Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrearsOf pain, darkness, and cold.

What makes the hero truly great is never, never to despair.

What cannot be cured must be endured.

Be like a slippery ball that cannot be held: Let no one know what gets to you, or where your weaknesses like.

Be like a slippery ball that cannot be held: Let no one know what gets to you, or where your weaknesses lie.

In this world, where the game is played with loaded dice, a man must have a temper of iron, with armor proof to the blows of fate, and weapons to make his way against men. Life is one long battle; we have to fight at every step; and Voltaire very rightly says that if we succeed, it is at the point of the sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand. —Arthur Schopenhauer

The source of (50 Cents') power is his utter fearlessness.

Cato was always the perfect Stoic, as long as nothing went wrong.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again. It didn't break you when you fell. That's the important part.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

What can't be changed must be endured.

Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn't—if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes—then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous.

You will do well.

Until you can, remember this. We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

The fall of the Stone will be one of the major proofs that the Dragon has been reborn. May the Stone stand till I am dust.

The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him. Two

Strong endures; hard shatters." Cadsuane

The spine that refused to bend at all was often the most malleable once it gave way.

there was a solidness to him, as though a flood could wash around him without uprooting his feet.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet. Now