Quotes About Fortitude

I am ready to die, but I refuse to lose.

You will be struck, and when you are the force of it must not stagger you, the pain of it must not slow you, the shock of it must not cause you to doubt.

If there is one thing I have learned in all my many last stands, it is that death is never certain, only… extremely likely.

No soy un guerrero. —Sí que lo eres. —Un guerrero no se asusta. —Un necio no se asusta. Un guerrero resiste a pesar del miedo, y tú has resistido.

Hate us if you like. We're used to it. No one likes to shake hands with the man who empties the latrine pit either, but pits have to be emptied all the same. Otherwise, the world fills up with shit.

And then he realised then that he had not lost all those times in the training square because he had lacked the skill, or the strength, or even a hand. He had lacked the will.

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.

Cairm Ironhead was a very different prospect. His scar-crossed face was a fortress of frown you could've blunted an axe on, eyes like nails under a brow like an anvil, cropped hair and beard an uncompromising black.

Shenkt had his work, and he would see it through to the end, however bitter. Just as he always did. Some stories, after all, are only suited to bitter endings.

Si te toca levantar una carga, más te vale levantarla que echarte a llorar

But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him,

and you have to have fear to have courage.

It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us. Self-pity goes with selfishness, and there is nothing more to be deplored in a leader than that. Selfishness belongs to children, and to halfwits. A great leader puts others before himself. You

Still, as Logen Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it. He picked up his dress sword, but after a minute

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good, no matter how much of a beating it takes. You're okay. You'll always be okay.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good, no matter how much of a beating it takes.

We're stronger than we think.

You are stronger than you think.

I learned it... after the storm... we're a lot stronger than we think we are.

Well, we're tough," Leonard said. "Ain't nobody tough enough in the end," Reba said.

Courage has been described as "grace under pressure".