Quotes about Fortitude
You must do it alone.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.
— Thomas a Kempis
It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.
— Thomas a Kempis
Give me courage to resist, patience to endure, constancy to persevere.
— Thomas a Kempis
by patience and true humility we become stronger than all our enemies.
— Thomas a Kempis
If therefore thou use not on all sides the shield of patience, thou wilt not remain long unwounded.
— Thomas a Kempis
not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
— Thomas a Kempis
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they reveal what he is.
— Thomas a Kempis
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I am not going to lie down and weep away a life of care.
— Virginia Woolf
I have undergone too much, my friend, to feel pride or squeamishness now. Except - added Nicholas, hastily, after a short silence - except such squeamishness as is common honesty, and so much pride as constitutes self-respect.
— Charles Dickens