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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'

  Erich Fromm

  World, Want, Capacity

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.27, Lantern Books

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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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• There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

  Sarada Devi

  Contentment, Treasure, Virtue

  "Holy Mother". "Prabuddha Bharatha" Journal, 1969.

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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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• 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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• There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

  John Ruskin

  Patience, Perseverance, Talking

  John Ruskin (1905). “Sesame and Lilies; The Ethics of the Dust; The Crown of Wild Olive: With Letters on Public Affairs, 1859-1866”

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

  John Galsworthy

  Life

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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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• 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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• I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

  Bruce Lee

  Memories, Past, Treasure

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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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• 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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• 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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• Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

  Epicurus

  Justice, Three, Virtue

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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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• Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Space, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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