Quotes About Fortitude

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

Part of the notion in Shambhala teachings is that everybody can live their lives so they get weaker and more stressed out as they go along, or so they get more fortitude and strength.

A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.

Your inner strength is invulnerable to fear.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

Looking at her, bedraggled and beaten, some might have seen weakness. He saw strength, determination, and a will no one could crush.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.

You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.

Showing strength is different than showing muscle.

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Strength is itself victory.

If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!

There is a strength in the even of very sorry men

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.