Quotes about Fortitude
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
- GK Chesterton
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You must do it alone.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.
- Thomas a Kempis
It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.
- Thomas a Kempis
Give me courage to resist, patience to endure, constancy to persevere.
- Thomas a Kempis
by patience and true humility we become stronger than all our enemies.
- Thomas a Kempis
If therefore thou use not on all sides the shield of patience, thou wilt not remain long unwounded.
- Thomas a Kempis
not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
- Thomas a Kempis
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they reveal what he is.
- Thomas a Kempis
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
- St. Thomas Aquinas