Fortitude Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fortitude Massive Resilience
Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is… — David Abram Copy Share Image
A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability... — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action. — Sun Bu'er Copy Share Image
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“its discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by decite” — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude. — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
“Rare are the principles that drive us to stand even when we realize that we will likely perish in the standing. And rarer still… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Fortitude is the grounding for all virtue. Courage is the strength to lift in times of adversity. And the will is the heart to… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“The mark of a short-sighted goal is that it is solely designed to achieve whatever needs to be achieved as a means of achieving… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to all manner… — John McCain Copy Share Image
In scale, 'Fortitude' is just as big as 'Game of Thrones.' It's equally as epic - it's just starting out. — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
