You were stalwart.

“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

— Mason Cooley

A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense… [T]he wood-spirits…

— Walt Whitman

I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife,…

— Christina Stead

Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing what those…

— Michelle Malkin

His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's idiosyncrasies and…

— John McLeod

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and…

— Diane Ravitch

I might be a stalwart, but I'm not a kingmaker.

— Eric Abetz

From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life…

— Richard A. Proctor

The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can…

— Martha Beck

Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave…

— Marvin J. Ashton

The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful,…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even…

— Herbert J. Muller

When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir…

— Henry David Thoreau

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

— Taylor Caldwell