Quotes about Fortitude
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
— Marcus Aurelius
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
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
— Thomas a Kempis
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
— Elbert Hubbard
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.
— Henry David Thoreau
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.
— John F. Kennedy
Whatever come we have to meet it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
— Aristotle