Fortitude Quotes

“Our reasoned choice--our 'prohairesis,' as the stoics called it--is a kind of invincibility that we can cultivate. We can shrug off hostile attacks and breeze through pressure and problems.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“I am a coward. And over the years I haven’t worked all that hard to change that. Rather, I’ve worked very hard not to act on it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I am led to believe that any summit is achieved simply through a series of steps. However, what I’ve failed to recognize is that those steps would be irrelevant if I hadn’t first gotten up every time I had been knocked down.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Never be disappointed and never lose your hope and fortitude when all that you see around is only shadows. Because if there are shadows, there must also be sources of light nearby. Find them, take them with you to illuminate your trail and make shadows disappear!”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attachment to the result. It was valuing guts more than the win.”
― Lauren Fleshman

“If you have not been driven to the end of yourself at some point in your life, it is likely that you have not given the whole of yourself at any time in your life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is not the smallness of my size as held against the enormity of my dreams, for the size of any dream will always be smaller than the passion of the heart that dares to dream it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The length of my stride will always be far less important than the direction in which I am walking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not about getting tired, as that’s inevitable. Rather, it’s about giving up once we’re tired, because that’s not inevitable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Triumph is not having achieved. Triumph is being determined to achieve.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Brave words are only brave when they birth the actions that they speak of.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“They say that “necessity is the mother of invention.” If that’s the case, then maybe the father of invention is the faith that one can actually invent in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Courage to die is all too different from that required to carry on living against odds." - Crossing the Mirage”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth

“There is a life of iron and a life of silver. Today we are in the life of iron. We must be strong.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Destiny of Dreams: Time Is Dear

“Hope is durable, even when I’m not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest act of bravery is to admit that we’re not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not the absence of good. It’s being brave enough to oppose the presence of evil.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“With creation and function came peace. With mental fortitude came strength and the banishment of weakness.”
― Nick Kyme, Feat of Iron

“The falls will come and I will lay prostrate on the cold hard pavement. But will I call the pavement a part of the journey to another place, or will I see the journey as ending in that place?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Rare are the principles that drive us to stand even when we realize that we will likely perish in the standing. And rarer still is the person who will surrender everything to protect such principles. Yet, these very characteristics are the unbending elements that raised this nation up from untamed wilderness and turmoil, and let us all be warned that without them we will rapidly return this nation to untamed wilderness and turmoil.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often my journey is described as the place that I last fell that I never got up from.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Honesty means willfully exchanging my precious agendas for the very truth that those agendas were designed to destroy. And sadly, few of us choose to be that brave.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Prayer gives you the fortitude to wait upon the Lord and avoid shortcuts, because you know even if it takes a while, God will answer.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man

“If it’s big enough for us to handle, God’s not in it and we shouldn’t be either.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If your dream is manageable, it’s just a nice idea that’s pretending to be a dream.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There’s nothing brave in pushing myself to the edge of my comfort zone. Bravery is about refusing to be in any kind of comfort zone in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“One who tolerates little, has to tolerate the most.”
― Raheel Farooq

“At the point that we can no longer see the dream, we need to have rehearsed it so many times that we can pursue it even though we can no longer see it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As anyone's ratio of trials to triumph grows to a complex, incalculable thing, so does their verve and valor become an immeasurable impact and influence.”
― Connie Kerbs, Whatsoever Things: A Little Theme of Faith & Inspiration With Wings

“The opposite of sloth is not 'activity' or industriousness in a business sense. It is fortitude - including patience and long-suffering.”
― Thomas Merton, Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation