Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.

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

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.

With creation and function came peace. With mental fortitude came strength and the banishment of weakness.