Quotes About Fortitude

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. Perhaps

up, his features stern with disapproval. "I

It was better to live one day as a lion, than a dozen years as a sheep.

the way of men. One fights one's battles alone, not asking mercy nor expecting help.

supreme test of all he would endure, without complaint

He had seemed huge and fat. He was all of that, but he was also a man of unbelievable strength. His

but never let them think there's an end to what you have, for then you will be thrown into the worst hole they have and left to rot. There

if trouble comes, stand aside and watch what a woman can do!

were stiff and

in the world were two kinds of people, those who wish and those who will, and the world and its goods will always belong to those who will.

for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

Women who dare are few, the women who would stand and wait are many.

guard your demon well, and don't let a moment's fury ruin all your life.

No eran conscientes de que las dificultades sirven para poner a prueba el carácter.

No soy paciente por naturaleza, pero tras cuarenta años esforzándome estoy aprendiendo a no dejar que la ira se lleve lo mejor de mí.

There are some natures too noble to curb and too lofty to bend.

The heavy winds couldn't blow her off course. She continued. Even when her heart clenched and her skin turned crackling cold it didn't matter, because the pure and naked part of her went on.

He always possessed an unusual, self-protective capacity to suppress unpleasant memories and keep alive those things that fortified his resolve.

Having weathered thirty years of assaults in the courts and statehouses, he must have felt invulnerable.

Another boy might have been crestfallen, but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection.

His tightly compressed lips expressed a fierce determination and a guarded nature.

I ran out of strong.

Look, men, there is Jackson34 standing like a stone wall.