Quotes About Fortitude

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.

But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.

Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.

The coward despairs.

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.

(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.

Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.

Wealth lost-something lost Honor lost-much lost Courage lost-all lost.

In politics guts is all.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.

Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.