Fortitude Quotes
Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him
True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.
I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.
Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.
I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.
It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.
I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.
The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.
Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.
Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.
Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect.
It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.
Part of the notion in Shambhala teachings is that everybody can live their lives so they get weaker and more stressed out as they go along, or so they get more fortitude and strength.
What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.
I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light.
The whole secret of era is to specific no nervousness. Never nervousness what fortitude become of you, depend on no one. Free the twinkling you annul all help are you unrestricting.
When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.
It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention.
Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.
Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.
Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.
Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.
One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.
There is no fortitude like patience, just as there is no destructive emotion worse than hatred.
I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken.
Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small.
Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.
