Positive character trait
Stoic
Enduring hardship with courage and steady self-command.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Bears pain or bad news without complaint.
- Keeps doing what needs to be done in a hard time.
- Does not make others carry their troubles.
Fits when a person bears pain or hardship without complaint
Not when the calm hides suffering that needs help, or the person is simply unfeeling
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
On a resume, stoic suggests hardship and hidden feeling, which is not what an employer is looking for; describe steady work through a hard period instead.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] was stoic through [a hard year or a long illness]: they kept [their work or their studies] going and never asked for special treatment, though they would have had it.
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Report card comment [Name] has been stoic through a difficult term and has kept up with their work.
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In a story, shown not told He said nothing about the pain in his knee until the last mile was run. Then he sat down on the curb and asked someone to call his mother.
The stoic patient joked with the nurses through months of treatment.
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