Quotes About Fortitude

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

The worst experience can bring out a person's deepest strength.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Don't be afraid of your own strength.

I have my own strength.

I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.

The best guide in life is strength.

I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

Only the strong survive.

The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.

That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

Holding on to the weak is called strength.

He who does not walk against the arrows cannot talk about the strength of his shield!

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.