personal fortitude Quotes

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she'd seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country - all around the world - who show that type of fortitude.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

I am a pretty strong person within myself.

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

External pressure I never worried about.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed