"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 women beautiful."~ Jacqueline Bisset (b. 1946)
"Be thou my exaltation
Or fortitude of mien,
Lord of the world's elation,
Thou breath of things unseen!"
~Bliss Carman (1861–1929).
"Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude. Why should we be busybodies and superserviceable?"~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
"The thanksgiving of the old Jew, "Lord, I thank Thee that Thou didst not make me a woman," doubtless came from a careful review of the situation - MORE The thanksgiving of the old Jew, "Lord, I thank Thee that Thou didst not make me a woman," doubtless came from a careful review of the situation. Like all of us, he had fortitude enough to bear his neighbors' afflictions." ~Frances A. Griffin
"It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom... - MORE It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom supposed falsely, that all would go if they could; to be able to say nothing when everyone is talking; to have no opinion when everyone is judging; to hear exclamations of rapture without power to depress; to listen to falsehoods without right to contradict, is, after all, a state of temporary inferiority, in which the mind is rather hardened by stubbornness, than supported by fortitude. If the world be worth winning let us enjoy it, if it is to be despised let us despise it by conviction. But the world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better." ~ Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
"That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work." ~ Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), U.S. author. As quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 2, by William V. Holtz (1993)
"If tragedy elicits our compassion, comedy appeals to our self-interest. The former confronts life's failures with noble fortitude, the latter ... - MORE If tragedy elicits our compassion, comedy appeals to our self-interest. The former confronts life's failures with noble fortitude, the latter seeks to circumvent them with shrewd nonchalance. The one leaves us momentarily in a mood of resignation, the other in a condition of euphoria."~ Harry Levin (b. 1912)
"What is there
like fortitude! What sap
went through that little thread
to make the cherry red!"
~Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
"The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
I have no relish of them."
~William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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