Quotes About Fortitude

The greatest victory for man is not that his dreams were fulfilled but it is that to stand upright even when none of his dreams were fulfilled!

The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself!

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

A man with courage has every blessing.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

No man may be completely invulnerable.

Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.

Necessity makes dastards valiant men.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

Whatever come we have to meet it.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

Develop The Grit To be great.

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.