Quotes about Fortitude

Goodness, man, don't be so lachrymose.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory" was the motto of the King's Guard in ancient Greece.

Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face! To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

What can't be helped must be endured.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Pain is weakness leaving your body

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

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