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Quotes About Fortitude

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
~ Frank Capra
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
~ Sir James M. Barrie
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
~ Jeremy Collier
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
~ Livy
Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
~ Aeschylus
Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.
~ Napoleon Hill
Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.
~ Ovid
If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.
~ Ronald Reagan
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
~ Samuel Johnson
COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.
~ Gerry Lindgren
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
~ Vauvenargues
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
~ Ann Landers
Desperate courage makes One a majority.
~ Andrew Jackson
He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
~ Voltaire
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!
~ William Shakespeare
Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
~ Edward Abbey
We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.
~ Dalai Lama
Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
~ Virgil
From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.
~ Franz Kafka
Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.
~ Ruth Gordon
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.
~ James Forrestal
To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
~ John Milius
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
~ William Shakespeare