Quotes about Fortitude
All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage
- Dennis Prager
It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
- Cicero
Necessity does the work of courage.
- George Eliot
Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Samuel Johnson
Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
- Ruth Gordon
Death alone will put a stop to my effort!
- David Livingstone
It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
- Samuel Johnson
In his list of fruits of the Spirit, Paul includes one that we translate with the archaic word "long-suffering." We would do well to revive that word, and concept, in its most literal form to apply to the problem of long-term pain.
- Philip Yancey