Quotes about Fortitude
Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now.
- Madeleine L'Engle
On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.
- Madeleine L'Engle
But as she had felt she was beyond fear, so now she was beyond screaming.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Stand up.Stand out.Stand firm.Stand strong.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
- Samuel Johnson
Although the wicked rise up against us with violence, let us be of a bronze countenance, as Ezekiel says (3:8 f.). Let
- John Calvin
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
- John Donne
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
- Epictetus
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.
- Marianne Williamson
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
- William Wordsworth
Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
- Theodore Roosevelt