Quotes About Fortitude

pluck, courage, resourcefulness

take it.' London could take anything. My heart goes

I have never been seduced by prosperity; adversity shall find me superior to its blows.'79

I hurt like someone had decided to play the drums on my ribs with a mace, but I didn't think anything was actually broken. That might sound a little strange, given that this monster had both the mass and the general disposition of a siege engine, but I'd never actually managed to find anything that could break my bones.

Hard" isn't the same as "mean".

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

We were all just as brave,' finished Julia Abatemarco. 'Neither of the sides had the strength to be braver. But we … We managed to be brave for a minute longer.

For whoever doesn't overcome the cowardice inside themselves will die of fear to the end of their days. The

Il vigliacco muore cento volte. L'uomo coraggioso una volta sola.

When hit, you give a note which shows you're fashioned of pure steel, unlike these men molded from bird shit.

perserverence w/o exception

Every single day for the rest of your life, somebody is going to push you in the pool. And you'd better decide now how you're going to act when it happens>

Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.

Courage is not merely one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at its testing point.

So to make sure we don't get off on that foot, courage is resistance to fear or mastery of it, but it is not the absence of fear.

Hay que ser muy valiente para vivir con miedo. Contra lo que se cree comúnmente, no es siempre el miedo asunto de cobardes. Para vivir muerto de miedo, hace falta, en efecto, muchísimo valor.

Hay que retener firmemente las cosas agradables que nos ocurren y construirse con ellas una fortaleza, y alejar en cambio a manotazos y patadas todo lo feo que se empeña en rodearnos y aplastarnos contra el suelo. Si tenía un disgusto, era capaz de plantarle cara y espantarlo como a un fantoche, pensando en los buenos momentos que había vivido y en los que aún le quedaban por gozar.

Theodophilus Fortitude Fry

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Most of the time the only difference between winning and losing is not quitting.

It's just that she always seemed indestructible. I never saw her tired or upset or vulnerable. She was one of those women who can face anything the world has to throw at her.

My saying is to 'Ride until the wheels fall off.'

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one.