We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don’t have to stay down.

Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread....

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.

At Times I Am A Flower…at times I am a flower ~singularly defined …

Grounded leaders are present for others, operate with fortitude, and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.

I never studied on fighting demons, but that don’t mean I aim to let this one defeat us. The dark ones have their share of limitations too.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine...

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth...

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could...

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

We do not have to see the beginning and the end of our lives, but we must close our eyes and live as if we didn’t start or would never end.

If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we’ve been knocked down, then we’re spending our lives lying down.

There is no such thing as colossal failure. There is only colossal courage to attempt the impossible again and again until it becomes possible.

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.

How you react when your back is against the wall will determine if you see what’s actually over the wall.

Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation?

That Detroit ultimately concentrated on automobiles could be traced to one genius, Henry Ford…. But that the necessary human energy for this development existed in Detroit could be proven through its early history…. I told...

True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly passions and affections of the mind; and in steadfastly and freely exerting and...

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all...

The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone...

I used to think, that when my old inner demons started creeping back into my life, that it was a sign of failure or moral weakness. But the saints have shown me that part of...

Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice. It feels as if Hades and his vile demons have risen from the depths of...

Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Attitude with gratitude supported by fortitude will take you to the next altitude!

Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across...

In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not...

I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep.

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

The key to success―keep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.

It moves silently, only a mere trickle to entertain itself as it causes a massive gash in the world. This, Zack, is true power.

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n’ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at...

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.