Fortitude Quotes

At the moment that everything goes dark, the sunset in front of us becomes the whole story. But if we find courage enough to wait until tomorrow morning, we will suddenly come to understand that in reality yesterday’s sunset was only half of the story.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no fortitude like patience, just as there is no destructive emotion worse than hatred.

~ Auliq Ice

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

Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

~ Amit Kalantri

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

~ Orson F. Whitney

Faith is a fortitude.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Maya Angelou

The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, my friend, until you've arrived.

~ Toni Sorenson

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

~ Herman Melville

The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Because I have ‘chosen’ to see something as impossible, there’s a good chance that it’s not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Your attitude will either make or break you, we cannot change fate and the tragedies that enter our lives but we can choose how we want them to change us.

~ Nikki Rowe

The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It's still ok to dream with a broken heart.

~ Nikki Rowe

Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.

~ Nikki Rowe

I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At once I realized there was no excuse at all for me not to scale my own mountains.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Every physical response, every psychological change and every mental transformation starts with the mind.

~ David Amerland

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

~ Jacqueline Bisset

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

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

Every time you try and fail,Every time your hope gets stuck in the deeps,And you wonder just how you'd get through the sail-Don't forget that underneath your pain,Is an anchor of great strength and fortitudeKeep digging until you find it...And when you do,RISE!

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not turn the pain into something else - regret.

~ J.r. Rim

Be a woman of confidence, not cockiness. Know your boundaries, set no limits. Speak your kindness and turn your back to conformed groups. The only way to be a woman of change in this world, is to walk what you talk and set your own soul free first.

~ Nikki Rowe

I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid, this thirsty, this alone. I haven't been a good leader, but--people are counting on me to take them to safety. I don't know if I'm twelve or twenty or if I'm twenty and I don't think age matters anymore-------There is a way out. I will find a way out.

~ Scott Sigler

True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly passions and affections of the mind; and in steadfastly and freely exerting and following good affections and dispositions, without being hindered by sinful fear or the opposition of enemies... Though Christian fortitude appears in withstanding and counteracting the enemies that are without us; yet it much more appears in resisting and suppressing the enemies that are within us; because they are our worst and strongest enemies and have greatest advantage against us. The strength of the good soldier of Jesus Christ appears in nothing more than in steadfastly maintaining the holy calm, meekness, sweetness, and benevolence of his mind, amidst all the storms, injuries, strange behaviour, and surprising acts and events of this evil and unreasonable world.

~ Jonathan Edwards

Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.

~ James C. Emlund

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Start with a cry, end with a smile.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

At Times I Am A Flower...at times I am a flower ~singularly defined ...

~ Muse

We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We all think of doing something distinctive in life. We all do dream of becoming great and leaving distinctive footprints but, when we get that dream, we must get a clear understanding of what it takes to be great. We must get the real picture of what it takes to live and leave distinctive footprints. We need to understand the real reasons why we must pursue to the end notwithstanding how arduous the journey to greatness may be and the tangible and intangible costs we may have to pay. We must have a nimble mind, move with tenacity and dare without retreating. Though we may be ignorant of the certainty, uncertainty and serendipity we may meet, we must think ahead! Vision shall always be a vision until we take that step of fortitude to make it a reality. When you dream of what is distinctive, make it happen!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is not his body which makes a man strong, but his spirit. Nothing on the outside, but only that which comes from within.

~ Jocelyn Murray