Quotes About Fortitude

in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Sono qui perché se mi arrendo questa volta mi arrenderò tutta la vita.

Non c'è eroismo nelle pene che ci si infligge da soli.

Non ha mura, Timbuktu, perché da sempre pensano, laggiù, che la sua bellezza, da sola, fermerebbe qualsiasi nemico.

Since we are sinking, let us sink. We can die but once.

your fortune looks like the pyramids. When someone would want to tear them, he wouldn't dare to, and when he dares to, he couldn't do it.

Bring it on, bring the pain on, I want to face it

Special things have a way of surviving.

There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.

When there is nothing you can do to stop the march of adverse events, then the best thing, she felt, was to get on with life and not to worry.

It is very difficult sometimes to keep upright.

We cannot let wicked people spoil our lives for us, can we?

How much strength must one people have? And for how long must they have it?

She'd done harder things in her life, she could do this. She had to.

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.

Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.

Patience is not my dominant virtue. --D'Artagnan

There are men who have suffered and who have not only gone on living, but even built a new fortune on the ruins of their former happiness. From the depths into which their enemies have plunged them, they have risen again with such vigor and glory that they have dominated their former conquerors and cast them down in their turn.

Man upon this earth must expect everything, and ought to face everything.

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.--Irish Proverb

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed," Abigail Adams wrote to her son John Quincy Adams in the midst of the American Revolution, suggesting that "the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Fortitude is a value missing in our society today. There is a reality about sticking things out for a better day to dawn that is not cliché, but honest-to-God good advice that we should all weigh and consider

she could squeeze the balls off a buffalo nickel.

It struck her as extremely characterless for any human being to sit around waiting for execution. It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?