Quotes About Fortitude

But you will bear your sickness more easily both with quiet, and with a noble temper, for it is necessary for mortals to suffer misery.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.

I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

Courage—just that; courage as a rule of life, and something to cling to always.

Brave girls don't cry.

Don't cry, Samarra whispered, Nothing ever happens to the brave.

Leo Tolstoy quote: 'The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.' " "Thank you for that, Jack," Charles said tongue in cheek.

I think the correct expression according to Kathryn would be, 'sit on a pointy stick and twirl around,' or, in other words, 'perch, pivot, and rotate.

Why would anyone in their right mind continue as I

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

Pedras no caminho? Eu guardo todas. Um dia vou construir um castelo.

O meu estoicismo é uma necessidade orgânica. Preciso de me couraçar contra a vida. Como todo o estoicismo não passa de um epicurismo severo, desejo, quanto possível, fazer que a minha desgraça me divirta

It is a rule of life that we can and must learn from everyone. There are serious matters in life to be learned from charlatans and bandits, there are philosophies to be gleaned from fools, real lessons of fortitude that come to us by chance and from those who depend on chance. Everything contains everything else.

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

It feels good to be strong.

I'm a strong fellow.