Quotes about Fortitude
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
— Epictetus
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'
— Abraham Lincoln
If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.
— JM Coetzee
I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...
— Jack Kerouac
He who whets his steel, whets his courage.
— Steven Pressfield
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
— George Eliot
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
— Thomas a Kempis
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.
— Victor Hugo