“The beautiful stranger cuddled Cindy, and she rocked the chair slightly as she spoke softly to her. “Suicide is a problem, not… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?'… — Lauren Fleshman Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude,… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
“One man lives out his life beating his fears into submission, while another lives out his life letting his fears beat him… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The mark of a short-sighted goal is that it is solely designed to achieve whatever needs to be achieved as a means… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire,… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
“The water never stops, never gives up, and denies no faults in the path it takes,” he explained, my eyes still focused… — Daniel "Z" Hastings Copy Share Image
No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Never be disappointed and never lose your hope and fortitude when all that you see around is only shadows. Because if there are shadows, there… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to… — Paul Burch Copy Share Image
If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies,… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public… — Plato Copy Share Image
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Be a woman of confidence, not cockiness. Know your boundaries, set no limits. Speak your kindness and turn your back to conformed… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you… — Antonia Novello Copy Share Image
Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As soon as people really get into the swamp - the scary swamp that is 'Fortitude' - there's no getting out of… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image