A Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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May 25, 1803 - January 18, 1873

To bear is to conquer our fate.

Thomas Campbell

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

Susan Ertz

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

Elbert Hubbard

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Charlotte Bronte

When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to be discouraged, for resolution is the mother of fortitude, and not only necessary to our support, but very much conducive to our deliverance.

Samuel Palmer

We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude

George Washington

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

Jonathan Swift

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

William Hazlitt

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

Milan Kundera

You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.

Melina Mercouri

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

Ambrose Bierce

The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.

Henry Fielding

If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears.

Ann Shin

That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.

D. H. Lawrence

Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.

Jurgen Habermas

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