Fortitude quotes
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
-- Aristotle -
Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.
-- Bill Hybels -
The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.
-- Charlotte Beers -
Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
-- George Eliot -
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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.
-- Henry Kirke White -
It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
-- John Galsworthy -
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
-- John Locke -
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 -
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
-- Norm MacDonald -
You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
-- Patrick Rothfuss -
Nothing is impossible to industry (fortitude).
-- Periander -
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
-- Rex Stout -
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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.
-- Robertson Davies -
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
-- Samuel Adams -
There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.
-- Sarada Devi -
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
-- Theophile Gautier -
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I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.
-- Washington Irving -
It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.
-- Hannah Webster Foster -
Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.
-- Melvil Dewey -
Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's strength of character.
-- Erich von Manstein -
