Quotes about Fortitude
Do not pray for easy lives my friends, pray to be stronger man!
- John F. Kennedy
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.
- Maya Angelou
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
- Teresa of Avila
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
- James Allen
Circumstances don't shape us, so much as they reveal us.
- James Allen
A tree's nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Money is a great asset, talent is an extraordinary asset, and courage is an exceptional asset.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
It is difficulties that show what men are.
- Epictetus
It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.
- Harry S. Truman
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
- Cicero
...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.
- Ted Dekker