Quotes about Fortitude

Like hearts of oak.

The time to prepare for life's disappointments and hurts is in advance.

The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.

And no matter what game they play We got something they can never take away

You will never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Then, lastly, there is another reason why the good are afflicted with temporal calamities—the reason which Job's case exemplifies: that the human spirit may be proved, and that it may be manifested with what fortitude of pious trust, and with how unmercenary a love, it cleaves to God.

But if the want of those things which are necessary for the support of the living, as food and clothing, though painful and trying, does not break down the fortitude and virtuous endurance of good men, nor eradicate piety from their souls, but rather renders it more fruitful, how much less can the absence of the funeral, and of the other customary attentions paid to the dead, render those wretched who are already reposing in the hidden abodes of the blessed!

The love of God does not consist in tears or in this delight ad tenderness, which for the greater part we desire and find consolation in; but it consists in serving with justice and fortitude of soil and in humility. Without such service it seems to me we would be receiving everything and giving nothing.

A person is said to be patient…because he acts in a praiseworthy manner by enduring things which hurt him here and now and is not unduly saddened by them.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.