Quotes About Fortitude

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.

Never to whine; to accept what came; to wait for better; to take what you could; to let no one, not even yourself, know how near to giving in you were.

Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.

The strong lean upon death as on a rock.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. —Voltaire

If you can't be brave, be determined. And you'll end up in the same place.

Weak people abound, strong people abide.

worked. But she could live with it. "So

Where I train we smack our palms and knuckles against cinderblocks. This action creates tiny fissures in the bones. When those fissures heal, the bone is stronger. I can put the blade of my palm through a two-by-four.

Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.

Frightened, but determined, and if the time came to be brave, I am quite sure you would be very, very brave.

Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none." She

You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.

The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

We have what we can hold, dear boy, and never let them see you flinch or falter.

But I know you have courage, and I know you have will. The rest is just picking yourself up and ramming into the wall again and again until it falls down. You get a bloody forehead, so what? You can do it, I swear you can.

Buck up, suck it up, don't fuck it up

He read his own obituary and an editorial lamenting his demise and praising his fortitude and immediately began to think up witty ways of writing to the paper to announce his continued and uninterrupted existence. The other two joined in the game with enthusiasm, and soon all three of them were howling with laughter and emptying bottles at a rate which would have alarmed even a depressed Scandinavian.

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.......

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

Well, I've often been wrong, but this time I was right and they had to pay mind to me or bury me, and mine is a breed that dies hard.

Yet moaning and wailing was not my way. I had never complained, for who cares for complaints? If something is wrong, one does something.