Quotes about Fortitude
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
- George Eliot
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
- Thomas a Kempis
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.
- Victor Hugo
Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes through all.
- Thomas a Kempis
Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.
- Bruce Lee
There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that
- Herman Melville
My lord, like one's cranium, it will endure till broken.
- Herman Melville
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Seneca
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
- Seneca
Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
- Shane Claiborne
After a while, he went back to his task; he decided that pain was not a valid reason for stopping.
- Ayn Rand