People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The courage in chasing any dream rests in our refusal not to chase it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“It is not the presence of fear that bothers me. Rather, it is the cowardice within me that refuses to face the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, my friend, until you've… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
“CrossFit Games athletes are renowned for their ability to suffer, but this event tested everyone’s limits of endurance, stamina, fortitude, and pain… — Ben Bergeron Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as colossal failure. There is only colossal courage to attempt the impossible again and again until it… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
“I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The opposite of sloth is not 'activity' or industriousness in a business sense. It is fortitude - including patience and long-suffering.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If I’m intelligent enough to realize that I need to be determined, that may be all the intelligence that I really need.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character,… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum.… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“I am led to believe that any summit is achieved simply through a series of steps. However, what I’ve failed to recognize… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger… — Elizabeth Samet Copy Share Image
“Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice. It feels… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
