Quotes About Fortitude

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that's the way I'm succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is 'I'm sorry,' and I keep moving on.

The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

I believe 99% of success is never giving up.

I don't succumb to pressure.

I think just that dog inside of you. When things suck, just to still fight.

Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.

I'm a real man. I can suffer.

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

Suffering does not change its face.

I think if you're not strong, in life or in football, not every day is going to be going up and seeing the sunshine.

Who speaks of victory? To endure is all.

am glad, in a word, that you have withstood the dangers of slipping into all this, and that somewhere you are living alone and courageous in a rough reality. May the year to come maintain and strengthen you in it. Ever yours, R. M. Rilke

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Character is that which can do without success.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength

Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows.

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.