Quotes about Fortitude
...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.
— Ted Dekker
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