Quotes about Fortitude

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

What can't be helped must be endured.

She was going about her life, taking her pleasures as she found them, suffering what was hers to suffer, doing what she had to do. She had about her no air of self-pity or complaint. And this could only have been because, in her own heart, she was not pitying herself or complaining.

But there, in her diminishment, she seemed to resemble only herself, as if suffering finally had singled her out.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

She was the captain of her soul