Fortitude Quotes · Page 5

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The problem with patience is that we are not patient enough to learn it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Stubbornness is determination stripped of wisdom.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I sought my final strength. For there were strengths of which the witch was unaware.”

— Daniel Thorman

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

— Gretchen Carlson

“The only thing that we should give up on is the idea that we should be giving up.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often my journey is described as the place that I last fell that I never got up from.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's…

— Erich von Manstein

“The power never to compromise. .. [to] have the fortitude.. .the guts!.. .the stamina for the long haul.”

— Anonymous

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

— Martial

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

— Jonathan Swift

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

— Cornel West

Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's…

— Francis Chan

“We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on…

— Anne Lamott

O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under…

— Bahá'u'lláh

Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or…

— Debra Granik

Perseverance is what I tell my students. It's important that you keep your dream alive, because you're going to encounter a lot…

— Kasi Lemmons

“I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered.…

— Rachel L. Schade

Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk,…

— Peter McWilliams

“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them…

— Eric Overby

“Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How…

— Gabrielle Zevin

The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them,…

— William Shakespeare

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to…

— John McCain

did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as…

— Anonymous

Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable…

— Anonymous

“The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in in the next…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such…

— Orson F. Whitney

I don’t believe in “laying to rest” the past. There are wounds we won’t get over. There are things that happen to…

— Christian Wiman

“Is power then,” said Vivaldi, “the infallible test of justice? Is it morality to obey where the command is criminal? The whole…

— Ann Radcliffe

“...such it is with all human sensations that people become gradually used to everything and this is truly a beneficial gift from…

— C. J. Wagevier

“Choice not chance dictates direction, and passion strengthens fortitude”

— Joshuah Buckle

You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”

— Francis Bacon

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

“I don’t know that an easy life is really all that easy.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Yeah, you’ve been beaten up. But the battle will always go to those who get up.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

— Aristotle

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

— Felicia Hemans