Quotes About Fortitude

and the "Devil's Hornpipe.

As she floundered on, plunging into the deep snow, she suddenly laughed aloud. Well, she thought, here I am. I dread to go on and I would not go back.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Sometimes the only thing that keeps you from going mad is stubbornness and need.

Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?" The

It takes more to scare me now.

It's harder to take a punch than to give one.

You been too strong," she said firmly. "I know about that. Strong starts out being the right thing. Your hands grow strong enough for your work. Your back strengthens under your burdens. Soon your mind becomes strongest of all; has to be to get through the hard days. " - Serafina Ashes: Seeds of America - Laurie Halse Anderson

if she was finished.

When things broke down, one kept moving, for to stop was to signal the end. To complain was to waste breath. To fuss was a luxury.

The real teacher is endurance.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

No status change, we hold our fire.

River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me.

When the pain comes, you know what I do? I smile.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Chin up, don't smile, don't cry, don't fall, walk.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes…. I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

It is not surprising that with the experience of our own age, suffering should come foremost, and out of suffering, in the end, emergence, fortitude, loyalty, faith in each other, overwhelming love.