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Quotes About Fortitude

The weapon of the brave is in his heart.
~ Anonymous
A man of courage never wants weapons.
~ Anonymous
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No great thing conies to any man unless he has courage.
~ Cardinal James Gibbons
The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.
~ Robert J. McCracken
Courage is the right disposition toward fear.
~ Anonymous
Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
~ Arthur Koestler
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
~ Anne Bronte
We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.
~ Emperor Hirohito
They were never defeated, they were only killed.
~ French Foreign Legion
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
~ Horace
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
~ Plautus
Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When the rock is hard, we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough, we get tougher than the job.
~ George Cullum
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
~ Ralph W. Sockman
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~ William James
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way, it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.
~ H. Bertram Lewis
This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
~ Euripides
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
~ Teresa of Avila
He alone fails who gives up and lies down.
~ Ralph Waldo Trine