It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.
Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.
Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.
There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking
It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other brains have a curiosity for what they don't know - the life they're not leading.
Fortitude, determination. . . in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.
Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.