Quotes about Fortitude
What does not destroy me makes me strong.
— John Milton
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
— John Wooden
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
— James Allen
George Washington once wrote that leading by conviction gave him "a consolation within that no earthly efforts can deprive me of." He continued: "The arrows of malevolence, however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me.
— George W. Bush
liberating when your strongest
— Sarah Young
The measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
— Thomas a Kempis
It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
— Marcus Aurelius
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.
— Mark Twain
we must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for.
— Audre Lorde
No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)
— Ayn Rand
Do not let the hero in your soul perish...
— Ayn Rand