Quotes About Fortitude

Courage is adversity's lamp.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

Courage is knowing what to fear.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

Courage doesn't always roar.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.