Quotes about Fortitude
Patient endurance attends to all things.
- Teresa of Avila
He conquers who endures.
- Anonymous
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
- Epictetus
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'
- Abraham Lincoln
If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.
- JM Coetzee
I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...
- Jack Kerouac
He who whets his steel, whets his courage.
- Steven Pressfield
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson