C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Fortitude
Learn to labor and to wait.
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
Bid that welcome which comes to punish us, and we punish it, seeming to bear it lightly.
In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.
We men are but poor, weak souls, after all; women beat us out and out in fortitude.
Where true fortitude dwells, loyalty, bounty, friendship and fidelity may be found.
The vulgar refuse or crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining.
True fortitude is seen in great exploits, that justice warrants and that wisdom guides.
Providence has clearly ordained that the only path fit and salutary for man on earth is the path of persevering fortitude—the unremitting struggle of deliberate self-preparation and humble but active reliance on divine aid.
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.
Fortitude has its extremes as well as the rest of the virtues, and ought, like them, to be always attended by prudence.
There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.
Fortitude is not the appetite of formidable things, nor inconsult rashness; but virtue fighting for a truth, derived from knowledge of distinguishing good or bad causes.
The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who is calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering.
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man’s self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in his way.
Blessed are those whose blood and judgment are so well commingled that they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger to sound what stop she please.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.
Every man must bear his own burden, and it is a fine thing to see any one trying to do it manfully; carrying his cross bravely, silently, patiently, and in a way which makes you hope that he has taken for his pattern the greatest of all sufferers.
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tyrant.
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with everything that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.
Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business—all who have got a task to do, a work to finish—bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose—till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned.
It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles.