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164 Fortitude quotes by 135 unique authors

Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only… — Robert Winston
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart… — Samuel Witwer
I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party… — James Wolcott
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive… — Martin Amis
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live… — Robert Bolt
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites… — Jane Austen
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the… — Phyllis McGinley
The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power… — David O. McKay
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears… — Jane Austen
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the… — C.S. Lewis
Patience and fortitude conquer all things. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals… — Patrick O'Brian
The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to… — Madeleine L'Engle
It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for… — Rob Bell
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience,… — Orson F. Whitney
What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then… — Elizabeth Gilbert
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud… — Bill Bryson
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,… — Jane Austen
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… — Theodore Roosevelt
All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power, and your soul power—‘Ask, and… — David O. McKay
You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me. — Patrick Rothfuss
did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us,… — F B Meyer
Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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