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“Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.”

Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't

“Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.”

Soul Loss Despise Disposition Fortitude Inconvenience

Author:Saint Augustine

“With Aquaman I worked with such talented guys, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado. And he's a great character. I mean, Aquaman's a great character, he just hasn't been positioned in a role of importance in a long, long time. We tried to do that in this series; give him this platform because he deserves it, and give a very different perception of Aquaman while at the same time staying true to who the character is. Showing his power level, his fortitude, his sense of honor and commitment and responsibility, and hopefully showing everything that makes a hero a hero.”

“Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?”

Ifs Mean Helping Able Faces Willing Difficulty Surprise Perseverance Disappointment Keep Going Fortitude Unfamiliar Skillful

Author:Surya Das

“Shambhala does have unique teachings, as do many Buddhist traditions. For example, certain teachings within Shambhala have to do with raising the personal windhorse, or the energy of the individual, so a person has good fortitude to be able to live a good life.”

Persons Doe Able Certain Individual Energy Teaching Example Unique Tradition Buddhist Good Life Fortitude Shambhala

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“Part of the notion in Shambhala teachings is that everybody can live their lives so they get weaker and more stressed out as they go along, or so they get more fortitude and strength.”

Teaching Notion Fortitude Stressed Stressed Out Shambhala

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.”

Helping Problem Differences Ability Team Emotional Amount Solve Generous Take Time Peers Maintaining Fortitude Small Amounts Being Generous

Author:Kevin Allen

“Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.”

Pain Tasks Endure Fortitude Monotonous

Author:Melvil Dewey

“It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.”

Spiritual Moral Nonviolence Unbelievable Fortitude Militant

Author:Cornel West

“The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.”

“Everyone in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a potential target. My heart goes out to the UN family in Afghanistan: in spite of everything, they are showing fortitude. But they will need the support of the whole world at this difficult time.”

World Needs Heart Whole Difficult Support My Heart Whole World Spite Target Afghanistan Pakistan Fortitude Difficult Times

Author:Chris Alexander

“The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.”

“I admire about Hillary: Every time I am going to walk away from her candidacy, I think, she has absorbed more hate than anyone I can think of over the past twenty years, and she hasn't cracked under it. That's a kind of iron fortitude that maybe we need in the President of the United States. People project on to Hillary because she is a woman. They either hate her for everything they hate about women or they long for her to be everything they want in a woman. It's an impossible burden.”

People Thinking Kind Long Past Hate President Impossible Burden Admire Fortitude Over The Past

Author:Sara Paretsky

“Anyone of any age, any race, any background, any education - if they write an interesting enough book - can become a published author. What it takes is imagination, the ability to put words on a paper in an interesting, perhaps even unique way, the fortitude to rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, and polish, edit, polish, edit until the story sort of sings. I think everyone has a story inside him, but only a few have the persistence and, of course, the interest, to write it down and see it through.”

Thinking Writing Book Enough Age Interest Imagination Ability Interesting Unique Persistence Fortitude

Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

“Perseverance is what I tell my students. It's important that you keep your dream alive, because you're going to encounter a lot of obstacles, and no one is going to dream big for you. You have to have the fortitude and the resilience to stick with your own dreams. That can be hard.”

Important Dream Students Perseverance Obstacles Resilience Fortitude

Author:Kasi Lemmons

“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”

Support Virtue Philosophical Fortitude Intestinal Fortitude

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

“Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.”

Virtue Humility Sweet Honor Gratitude Roots Patience Calm Soil Affliction Fortitude Patience Virtue Intestinal Fortitude

Author:David Mallet

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.”

Knows Faces Higher Succeed Lawyer Overwhelming Odds Stubborn Fortitude Stubbornness Overwhelming Odds

Author:Louis Nizer

“Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.”

Country Confidence Determined African American Estates Council Fortitude Have Confidence Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem Confidence In Yourself Confidence Boosting Boost Your Confidence Words Of Confidence Council Estates

Author:Michelle Obama

“The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.”

Persons Long Lasts Young Games Wish Boys Saws Style Amount Mets Disease Died Complexes Treatment Massive Conventions Fortitude Discworld Assassins

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”

“Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.”

People Want Passion Causes Poverty Greater Honest Crime Endure Hardship Elsewhere Thieves Distress Fortitude Misers Honest People Crimes Of Passion

Book:The Portable William Blake

Source: The Portable William Blake

“Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.”

Men Giving Purpose Common Groups Conflict Creatures Built Seeds Genes Odds Survived Fortitude Morale Savannah Common Purpose

Author:Robert Winston

“When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.”

Ifs Way Needs Persons Enough Moral Figures Smart Lows Being True Explanation Justify Liars Fortitude You Re A Liar

Author:Samuel Witwer

“I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.”

People Way Purpose Difficult Party Responsibility Assuming Fortitude Bipartisanship

Author:James Wolcott

“What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.”

Has Beens Done Poor Common Wife Style Inspired Perseverance Decades Teeth Tendencies Prose Exile Fortitude Work Done Prerequisites Joyce

Author:Martin Amis

“If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.”

“I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.”

“God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.”

Knows Needs Humans Soul Mother Mom Aspect Brave Tolerance Flexibility Fortitude God Knows Human Soul Firmness

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.”

“Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.”

Source: Persuasion In Modern English

“Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.”

Men Shows Suffering Fool Laughter Advantage Foundation Endure Nonsense Show Me Complaints Fortitude

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German

“Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.”

Men Needs Lasts Fun Known Bears Periods Sight Trials Reasonable Relief Resolution Yield Fortitude Chastity

Book:The Screwtape Letters

Source: The Screwtape Letters

“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”

Success All Things Patience Conquer Fortitude Be Patient Patience And Perseverance Life Patience Great Patience Faith And Patience Intestinal Fortitude

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue.”

Source: The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

“The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is beyond images. Now she was kything Calvin, not red hair, or freckles, or eager blue eyes, or the glowing smile; nor was she hearing the deep voice with the occasional treble cracking; not any of this, but - Calvin. She was with Calvin, kything with every atom of her being, returning to him all the fortitude and endurance and hope which he had given her.”

Eye Given Voice Gone Knowing Hair Red Blue Moved Hearing Endurance Atoms Fortitude Occasional Glowing Blue Eyes Sensory Red Hair Freckles

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)”

Turns Enemy Praying Firm Resolve Cheeks Fortitude Spine Phenomenal Matthew Love Your Enemies Turn The Other Cheek

Author:Rob Bell

“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.”

“What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then - with great forgiveness and fortitude - dismissing them.”

Understanding Existence Talking Negative Fortitude Negative Thoughts Admitting Pray Love Eat Pray And Love Eat Love Pray

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn't know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.”

People Knows World Way Made Home America Found Stars Dark Sleep Deals Millions Proud Periods Fit Profound Woods Scales Wilderness Fortitude Tents Benign Colossal Slender

Author:Bill Bryson

“Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.”

“The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.”

Thinking Men Trying Dies Fall Quality Picks Get Back Fortitude

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power, and your soul power—‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.’ (Matt. 7:7.) But you have to seek, you have to knock. On the other hand, sin thrusts itself upon you. It walks beside you, it tempts you, it entices, it allures. You do not have to put forth effort. … Evil seeks you, and it requires effort and fortitude to combat it. But truth and wisdom are gained only by seeking, by prayer, and by effort.”

Soul Hands Evil Asks Given Prayer Sin Walks Effort Cost Intellectual Good Things Seeking Your Soul Combat Fortitude Thrust Allure Beside You Soul Power

Author:David O. McKay

“You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.”

Study Fortitude Spine Name Of The Wind

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“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”

Way Sea Danger Overcoming Brave Terror Glorious Southern Smooth Honorable Fortitude Incidents Undertakings Expeditions Placid

Book:Frankenstein

Source: Frankenstein

“To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, to put our mouths in the dust, if so be there may be hope -- here is fortitude indeed.”

Ifs May Strong Silence Mouths Praise Dare Dust Fortitude Steers Praise God

Book:Paul: A Servant of Jesus Christ

Source: Paul: A Servant of Jesus Christ

“Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can - working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!”

Wells Heart Mean Desire Waiting Failing Exercise Endure Active Staying Hardship Passive Fortitude Resignation Delayed

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“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.”

Doe Said Support Unhappiness Fortitude Exemplary

Book:Tempest-tost

Source: Tempest-tost

“You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.”

Matter Duty Determination Size Devotion Selfless Selflessness Fortitude Smallness Quaid Quaid Azam Devotion To Duty

Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out their IV. I think it was their fortitude that frightened us. Sick people reminded us not of what we had, but of what we lacked. Everything we said sounded petty and insignificant; our complaints paled in the face of theirs, and without our complaints, there was nothing to say.”

People Thinking Said Faces Mother Brain Sick Frightened Complaints Insignificant Petty Fortitude Catching

Author:David Sedaris

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