Quotes About Fortitude

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

I not only bow to the inevitable, I am fortified by it.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

What cannot be avoided, t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted; the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue.

Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crises, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.

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

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointments, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Character is that which can do without success.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointment, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.