Best Fortitude Quotes
164 Fortitude quotes by 135 unique authors
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People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a…
— William Faulkner
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Nothing is impossible to industry (fortitude).
— Periander
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Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of…
— Unknown Author
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He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
— Hilary Mantel
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I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities…
— H. L. Mencken
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If either person isn't 100% committed to scale every mountain that comes before you to make your relationship work then you aren't ready to enter…
— Cindy Wright
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There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril…
— Winston Churchill
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning…
— Rollo May
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The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.
— Derek Clayton
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It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an…
— LZ Granderson
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Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova…
— Keith Donohue
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Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have enough…
— Peter McWilliams
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It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather…
— Teresa of Avila
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I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you succeed, don’t forget…
— Antonia Novello
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It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
— John Galsworthy
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There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.
— Sarada Devi
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To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the…
— Plato
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Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to…
— Robert E. Lee
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To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I…
— Harry S. Truman
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The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude…
— Josef Pieper
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