Quotes About Fortitude

It is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

Features well cured make us strong.

Real gold fears no fire

Cause when push comes to shove, You taste what you're made of. You might bend till you break, Cause it's all you can take. On your knees, you look up, Decide you've had enough. You get mad, you get strong, Wipe your hands, shake it off. And you stand...

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

No, child. I'm old enough and cold enough; the hottest day won't thaw me

but in the great demoralization of the land he kept up his appearance. That's backbone.

Men who come out here should have no entrails.

The commonest sort of fortitude prevents us from becoming criminals in a legal sense; it is from weakness unknown, but perhaps suspected, as in some parts of the world you suspect a deadly snake in every bush — from weakness that may lie hidden, watched or unwatched, prayed against or manfully scorned, repressed or maybe ignored more than half a lifetime, not one of us is safe.

It is strange to think that, I won't say liberty, but the mere liberalism of outlook which for us is a matter of words, of ambitions, of votes (and if of feeling at all, then of the sort of feeling which leaves our deepest affections untouched), may be for other beings very much like ourselves and living under the same sky, a heavy trial of fortitude, a matter of tears and anguish and blood.

um homem deveria enfrentar sua má sorte, sua consciência, e todas essas coisas. - Ora - o que mais há para se combater?

You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed, walk it off.

River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear. Bold people do what they know they should do—not what they feel like doing.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

He did not send the power of His Spirit into our lives so we could be weak-willed, wimpy, or the type of person who gives up when the going gets tough.

Determination keeps us going when the going gets tough.

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Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

Judith Fitzgerald

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

Well then, I'll just have to suffer

It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to do but sit still until they pass. Tantrums and passions I don't need, endurance is what I need. I have found that it is even possible to take a certain pleasure out of submission to necessity. That have I borne, this can I bear also.

I can stand anything I have to stand!