Quotes about Fortitude
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.
- Mark Twain
we must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for.
- Audre Lorde
No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)
- Ayn Rand
Do not let the hero in your soul perish...
- Ayn Rand
When life's great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
It is difficulties that show what men are.
- Epictetus
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.
- Eric Wilson
I'm a freak when it comes to holding on the ground; it's just almost impossible holding me on the ground.
- Alexander Volkanovski
If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you're bullet-proof.
- Ricky Gervais
Well, well, we can't get through this world without our share of trouble. I've had a pretty easy life of it so far, but my time has come at last and I suppose I'll just have to make the best of it.
- LM Montgomery