Fortitude Quotes

• Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

  

  Aristotle
  • Daughter
  • Sister
  • Patience

• Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Thought
  • Fortitude
  • Marshall

• I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Faces
  • Higher
  • Stubborn

• I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Daring
  • Fortitude

• A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Giving
  • Action
  • Pain

• I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you succeed, don’t forget the responsibility of making somebody else succeed with you.

  

  Antonia Novello
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Responsibility

• Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

  

  George Eliot
  • Power
  • Fortitude
  • Receptiveness

• Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

  

  Keith Donohue
  • America
  • Wonderful
  • Grace

• Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Support
  • Guard
  • Fortitude

• I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.

  

  Mercy Otis Warren
  • Passion
  • Complicated
  • Patriot

• When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

  

  Samuel Witwer
  • Smart
  • Explanation
  • Liars

• Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Mean
  • Purpose
  • Endurance

• Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

  

  Melvil Dewey
  • Tasks
  • Fortitude
  • Monotonous

• Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him

  

  Francis Chan
  • Moral
  • Enjoy
  • Following

• Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heart
  • Quality
  • Endurance

• We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude

  

  George Washington
  • War
  • Mean
  • Evil

• Providence has clearly ordained that the only path fit and salutary for man on earth is the path of persevering fortitude — the unremitting struggle of deliberate self-preparation and humble but active reliance on Divine aid.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Divine
  • Providence
  • Aid

• It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.

  

  Kate Pierson
  • Energy
  • Complaining
  • Incredibles

• One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

  

  Susan Ertz
  • Troubles
  • Sufferings
  • Fortitude

• Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's strength of character.

  

  Erich von Manstein
  • Character
  • Strength
  • Fortitude

• There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Philosophy
  • Fate
  • Fortitude