“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There's teams that have a lot of success in the back-to-back, and I think those teams just have a strong mental fortitude. — Joe Harris 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 size of the giant in front of you will always be determined by the size of the giant within you.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Stand tall, Eliane... Don't let them destroy you, too. Promise yourself. We will survive this. We won't let them beat us. Courage,… — Fiona Valpy Copy Share Image
“Discouragement has never caused me to give up. But once I’ve had my fill of it, it always causes me to step… — 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
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
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on… He who, without friends to encourage… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way.… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly.… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great… — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“I'm not afraid to speak the truth. He may be powerful, but he's just a weak man, who proves his strength by… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
I admire about Hillary: Every time I am going to walk away from her candidacy, I think, she has absorbed more hate… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“She stood for a moment looking up at the stars, so far, so many, bright and cold. And with a faint smile… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you,… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
“How do you know if you are going to die?” I begged my mother. We had been traveling for days. With strange… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Although I too often see myself as powerless, the fact is the New Year is what I make it. And whatever I… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Why should I care when no one else does? For the simple reason that the most critical time to care is when… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Honesty means willfully exchanging my precious agendas for the very truth that those agendas were designed to destroy. And sadly, few of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Mom taught me that the real outcome rested in the fact that we were daring enough to attempt an outcome.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success… — Major Taylor Copy Share Image
The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about. — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
“A mountain is never measured by how tall it is. Rather, it is measured by how tall we will be once we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Culture thinks of resiliency as gutting it out and getting through, and one foot in front of the other. But resiliency is… — Jackson Nakazawa Copy Share Image
“...It's an affirmation of life and hope, of courage and quiet strength, of the defiant joy that exists alongside the sadness and… — Fiona Valpy Copy Share Image
