Quotes about Fortitude

complete state of retreating

I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I

I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it.

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.