Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. This week’s virtue is fortitude. Fortitude is strength of mind that allows one to endure adversity with courage. Throughout history, the greatest men and women have been those with fortitude.
10 Virtue Wednesday Quotes: Fortitude
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou
- “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the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.”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
- “A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”—Jacqueline Bisset
- “Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.”—Michelle Obama
- “One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.”—Saint Ambrose
- “Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”—John Locke
- “Have fortitude and self-control; use good and sweet-words; and examine each act of yours on the touch-stone of My preference.” – Sri Sathya Sai Baba
- “Still, I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds.”—Louis Nizer
- “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”— Harvey S. Firestone
- “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” – Elie Wiesel
