"Nothing is impossible to industry (fortitude)." — Periander

More Fortitude Quotes

This quote is filed under Fortitude Quotes, one of 164 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz
• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage,… — Jacqueline Bisset
• Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for… — William Blake
• It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness… — John Henry Jowett
• There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be… — Confucius
• The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. — Bliss Carman
• Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance… — Teresa of Avila
• It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour… — Herbert Hoover
• There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part… — John Ruskin
• Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter. — Aristotle

See all 164 Fortitude Quotes »