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Quotes About Fortitude

Give me courage to resist, patience to endure, constancy to persevere.
~ Thomas a Kempis
by patience and true humility we become stronger than all our enemies.
~ Thomas a Kempis
If therefore thou use not on all sides the shield of patience, thou wilt not remain long unwounded.
~ Thomas a Kempis
not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they reveal what he is.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The number of difficulties makes the Christian's conquest the more illustrious. A gracious man should be made up all of fire, overcoming and consuming all opposition, as fire does the stubble. All difficulties should be but whetstones to his fortitude.
~ Thomas Brooks
The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Endurance is patience concentrated.
~ Thomas Carlyle
And although it is true that the calamities of my noviciate in London had struck root so deeply in my bodily constitution, that afterwards they shot up and flourished afresh, and grew into a noxious umbrage that has overshadowed and darkened my latter years, yet these second assaults of suffering were met with a fortitude more confirmed, with the resources of a maturer intellect, and with alleviations from sympathising affection—how deep and tender!
~ Thomas de Quincey
I know from my experience as a Navy SEAL that barriers work.
~ Dan Crenshaw
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
A network did not make me, and therefore, a network cannot break me.
~ Tomi Lahren
Never give up or you are big time jabroni.
~ The Iron Sheik
When you're on the pitch, you should never give up and concede easy goals.
~ Gennaro Gattuso
When something really matters, you should never give up or give in.
~ Gordon Brown
One of the things I learned growing up, a rule that I go by, is just never give up. That's one thing that I had to keep telling myself.
~ Tony Finau
The will to never give up and to be fearless. That's what I have.
~ Christina Milian
I never give up. Doesn't matter what the score is.
~ Caroline Wozniacki
I will never give up, and I will never give in.
~ Craig Sager
I will never give up fighting firstly because that's not in my character, to just give up.
~ Simon Mignolet