Quotes about Fortitude

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

People are like tea bags—they never know their own strength until they get into hot water.

Courage is the gift of character.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Tough tims never last but tough people do..

Tough times never last. Tough people do

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it