Quotes About Courage And Fortitude

#1. Most important, the reason I wrote this book is to serve as proof that miracles do happen, that love can and does heal wounds, that there is hope for those with the courage and fortitude to seek healing.

Rachel Reiland

#2. 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.

Robert E.Lee

#3. One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

Edna Ferber

#4. There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

John Ruskin

#5. Wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any nation under the sun.

Peter Marshall

#6. You're only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

Marilynne Robinson

#9. Don't say you have started when you remain static. It takes just a step to start an arduous errand! Unleash yourself and take the courageous step tactically to accomplish the vision. When you have to do it, dare to do it!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Jacqueline Bisset

#11. If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.

Lance Conrad

#12. That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

Rose Wilder Lane

#13. I acquired courage from the masterpieces of sages. I came of age by their instructions to keep going, even in hard times. Then I learnt not to despair, even when it seemed that my world is falling apart. I learnt to possess fortitude.

Ogwo David Emenike

#14. The strength which we earnestly seek in order to meet the challenges of a complex and changing world can be ours when, with fortitude and resolute courage, we stand and declare with Joshua, 'As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.' [Joshua 24:15].

Thomas S. Monson

#15. The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
I have no relish of them, but abound
In the division of each several crime,
Acting in many ways.

William Shakespeare

#16. You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#17. If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. 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.

Rachel L. Schade

#20. True fortitude is seen in great exploits
That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides;
And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.

Joseph Addison

#21. I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Major Taylor

#22. There is no such thing as colossal failure. There is only colossal courage to attempt the impossible again and again until it becomes possible.

Toni Sorenson

#23. Skateboarding isn't a phase it's a way of life ~ Rehabiliskate

Nikki Rowe

#24. I never studied on fighting demons, but that don't mean I aim to let this one defeat us. The dark ones have their share of limitations too.

Erik Bundy

#25. What is a good man if not one who does not believe in himself to the exclusion of others? ... He was asked to bear what cannot be borne--what should not be borne. I hope never to be so tested, for I have it on the best authority that I will not bear it.

Norman Lock

#26. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

#27. It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

Marilynne Robinson

#28. I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Mary Pope Osborne

#29. God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

Phyllis McGinley

#30. I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

Louis Nizer

#31. Start with a cry, end with a smile.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#32. Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

Peter McWilliams

#33. Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so destitute that they will squelch my soul and crush my heart.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#34. To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#35. A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Charles Caleb Colton

#36. Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

Robert Green Ingersoll