Quotes about Fortitude
Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.
— George Bernard Shaw
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
— George Eliot
The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.
— George Eliot
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
— Saint Jerome
The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.
— Saint Jerome
Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
— Samuel Johnson
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
— Samuel Johnson
One of the ideas we must agree on and continue to forge with individual and collective vigor is that a woman's life goes uphill at forty.
— Marianne Williamson
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
— Aristotle
You do not know her, but she has a soul of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.
— Harry S. Truman
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
— JRR Tolkien