Inner Fortitude Quotes

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'

I do not fear it: I have been there.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

There is nothing in this world that I am prouder of than my ability to feel, to survive and, yes, to be a fool for what I love and believe in.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.