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How to use the word fortitude in a Sentence? Page #2

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In this moment there is a need for much courage and much fortitude to say 'no' to hate and vendetta and make gestures of peace.

Pope Francis on Sunday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Ukrainians [ are ] capable of defending their land from invaders, we do not need foreign troops. The Ukrainian people have sufficient military capabilities and fortitude to protect The Ukrainian people land from the invaders. But we are grateful for defensive non-lethal weapons that we are finally receiving now.

Petro Poroshenko

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He has done a lot of things in the past for me to look at and say, 'He has the knowledge and fortitude to make it happen.'.

Randy Feenstra

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I believe he has the ability to truly make a difference in our nation when it comes to economic, social and international policy, he has done a lot of things in the past for me to look at and say, 'He has the knowledge and fortitude to make it happen.'.

Randy Feenstra

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I tell my friends, I haven't seen anyone crying alone, i find a lot of resilience, fortitude and kindness.

Sophie Lauterborn

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I feel a deep loss over this disaster and pray for the families to be given fortitude and strength.

Joko Widodo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold?fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom.

Plato

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12 years ago

Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls.

The Hitopadesa

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12 years ago

Prosperity attends the lion-hearted man who exerts himself, while we say, destiny will ensure it. Laying aside destiny, show manly fortitude by thy own strength: if thou endeavour, and thy endeavours fail of success, what crime is there in failing?

The Hitopadesa

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12 years ago

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

Author Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

Sir Philip Sidney

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13 years ago

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

Leo Buscaglia

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14 years ago

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke

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14 years ago

Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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14 years ago

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Gale Brook Burket

added by anonymous
14 years ago

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

Phyllis Mcginley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I think it's them...Men. They have no fortitude. They're always dying or skedaddling off at the first sign of trouble. So tell me this, who is left to pick up the pieces, ship the body. clean out the closets Us And they have the audacity to call us the weaker sex.

Robin Green

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14 years ago

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Francis Bacon

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14 years ago

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