Fortitude Quotes

• Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Patience, Be Patient

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• I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

  Louis Nizer

  Odds, Stubborn, Faces

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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

  Mean, Endurance, Purpose

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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 the responsibility of making somebody else succeed with you.

  Antonia Novello

  Success, Perseverance, Believe

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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 principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

  Plato

  Perfect, Justice, Understanding

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• Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Support, Virtue

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Views, Challenges

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• The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

  Samuel Adams

  Perseverance, Deliberation, Circumspection

  Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• 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 are trying to get back up when they die.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fall, Men, Thinking

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• Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

  Jeremy Collier

  Rivers, Mind, Suffering

  Jeremy Collier (1969). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: (1698-1709).”

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• Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Grateful, Heart

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• The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

  Francis Bacon

  War, Adversity, Conflict

  1625 Essays, no.5,'Of Adversity'.

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• Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

  Francis Bacon

  Strength, Armor, Reason

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• Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of hardship comes a greater capacity to accept difficulties without losing our sense of inner calm. Of course, I do not advocate seeking out hardship as a way of life, but merely wish to suggest that, if you relate to it constructively, it can bring greater inner strength and fortitude.

  Dalai Lama

  Exercise, Inner Strength, Stronger

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• What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, People, Grace

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.478, CUA Press

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• No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Pain, Heart, Character

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• It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

  John Galsworthy

  Life

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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 in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Justice, Soul

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• It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

  Hannah Webster Foster

  Sinking, Difficulty

  Hannah Webster Foster (2015). “The Coquette: or, The History of Eliza Wharton”, p.93, Courier Dover Publications

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• I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

  Helen Keller

  Fighting, People, Want

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.73, American Foundation for the Blind

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• In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Struggle, Virtue

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.490, Classic Books Company

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• Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to allow ourselves be overtaken by laziness or despondency, especially when faced with the hardships and trials of life. In these cases, do not lose heart, but invoke the Holy Spirit, so that with the gift of fortitude He can lift our hearts and communicate new vigor and enthusiasm to our lives and our following Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, May

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• It is true fortitude to stand firm against
  All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
  In fear to suffer more calamity.

  Philip Massinger

  Fate, Suffering, Coward

  Philip Massinger, William Gifford, John Ferriar (1813). “The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence”, p.375

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• Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

  Michelle Obama

  Confidence, Country, African American

  "Michelle Obama due to arrive in UK to promote girls' education" by Sally Weale, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2015.

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• He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

  Martial

  Bears, Burden

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