Quotes About Fortitude

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!

And so hold on when there is nothing in you, Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss...

If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat these two imposters just the same ... If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you ... If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run ... you'll be a Man, my son!

As he held he closed his jaws tighter and tighter, for he made sure he would be banged to death, and, for the honor of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked.

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Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . . If you can wait and not be tired by waiting . . . If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim . . . If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.

If you can watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools, or make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss, you'll be a man.

What can't be cured must be endured.

It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

The essence of sport is courage.

Early on I quickly realized I'd never be the fastest or the strongest, but not once have I entertained the notion I couldn't be one of the toughest.

Turns out I'm not so easily broken.

Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will, " or "I will not, " and mean it?

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

The strength of walls depends on the courage of those who guard them.

True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.