Fortitude Quotes

Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.

~ Emil Dorian

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]

~ Charles De Gaulle

Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

the strongest backs bear the heaviest burdens

~ Will Bly

I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.

~ Nikki Rowe

That Detroit ultimately concentrated on automobiles could be traced to one genius, Henry Ford.... But that the necessary human energy for this development existed in Detroit could be proven through its early history.... I told him what I knew of the settlement in Detroit and of the climate, certainly almost the worst in the United States. Only the very strong could survive.... To defeat the conditions imposed by earth and sky at Detroit required intensive labor by energetic men who were not tempted by pleasure and play.

~ William Valentiner

Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.

~ Gary Hopkins

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

~ Marilynne Robinson

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don’t have to stay down.

~ Steve Goodier

Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice.  It feels as if Hades and his vile demons have risen from the depths of Tartarus solely for the purpose of banding to personally torture you, and that their genuine intent of mental, emotional, and spiritual anguish is tearing you to shreds.  Your heart weighs as heavily as leaden legs which you would drag yourself forward with if not for the quicksand that pulls you down inch by inch, paralyzing your will and threatening oblivion.  And all the while fire and brimstone pour from the sky, pelting only you.  Truly, that is what it feels like. But that feeling is a trial that won't last forever.  Never give up.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Marilynne Robinson

Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

~ Thiruvalluvar

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Embrace what is, steer toward what may yet be.

~ Tom Althouse

. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.

~ Nikki Rowe

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.

~ John Buchan

Great men do not experience small challenges. They face great challenge but that is what makes them great. That is what give them great story. That is what inspires them to live and leave distinctive footprints on minds. Though they face great challenges, they gather great momentum and strength to fight such challenges with fortitude and tenacity to the satisfaction of their inner man. Great men, though they face great challenges, they always come out of the challenges as great men with great stories. They live and leave distinctive footprints of life on minds

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Giving up on a purposeful journey of life is as deadly as death! When you pursue with tenacity, and strive through the adversities and the vicissitudes of life with a mind of fortitude and get to the end of the journey, you shall surely see life. Awake! Arise and go! Never ever give up!!!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The key to success―keep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.

~ Lorii Myers

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

~ Anne Lamott

There has never been any great person who never met great trials and oppositions but their patience, tenacity, endurance and perseverance saw them to the end as great people

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Attitude with gratitude supported by fortitude will take you to the next altitude!

~ Bayode Ojo

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

When righteous desires back up your motivation, you'll find that your inner gas tank will always have fuel to spare. Brick walls cannot stand in your way, detours cannot get you off track, and road construction will not make you turn around and head back. Your strength will surprise you, and whatever it is that your heart desires will eventually be accomplished.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

How you react when your back is against the wall will determine if you see what's actually over the wall.

~ Onyi Anyado

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

They that see how they can rise beyond the horizon never exert their total energy on things that are breathtaking on the ground! They think, they act and they see what we all see differently. Though their bodies live on the ground, their mind, spirit and energy journey purposefully towards higher heights each moment of time. They understand doing the small things that can result in great things and they reason from the ignorance, absurdity and the heralds of ordinariness of the masses. They know and understand the real reasons why they must dare, relax and ponder in patience, and also take steps with fortitude and tenacity for a noble accomplishment so as to leave great, distinctive and indelible footprints regardless of the hurdles they might face.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah