Fortitude
Fortitude meaning courage or bravery is the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. It is one of the four cardinal virtues that Aristotle proposed. Fortitude is the most important virtue since other virtue cannot be practiced without it.
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Fortitude may also refer to:
Ships
- HMS Fortitude, any one of several Royal Navy ships and installations
- HMS Fortitude (1780), a 74-gun third rate launched in 1780
- HMS Cumberland (1807) was launched as a 74-gun third rate; in 1833 she became the prison hulk HMS Fortitude
- Fortitude (ship), a sailing ship that carried free immigrants to Australia in 1849
- ST Fortitude, an Admiralty tugboat in service from 1947 to 1962
- USS Fortitude (AMc-81), a 1941 United States Accentor-class minesweeper
- Fortitude (1780 EIC ship), a merchant vessel built in 1780 on the River Thames
Places
- Fortitude Valley, Queensland, a section of Brisbane
- Fortitude Valley railway station, located beneath the Valley Metro complex
- Electoral district of Fortitude Valley, a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland
Art, entertainment, and media
- Fortitude (Botticelli), a 1470 painting
- Fortitude (play), a 1968 short work by Kurt Vonnegut
- Fortitude (TV series), a 2015 British drama television series
- Fortitude (King), a public artwork by artist American James King
- Patience and Fortitude, the lion sculptures flanking the entrance to the Schwarzman branch of the New York Public Library
- Fortitude (album), a 2021 album by Gojira
- Fortitude, a 2012 album by Ian Cooke
- Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage, a 2020 non-fiction book by Dan Crenshaw
Sports
- Fortitude Valley Diehards, an Australian rugby league football club
Other uses
- Operation Fortitude, a World War II deception operation
- United Patriots Front, otherwise known as Fortitude, an Australian populist far-right street protest movement and Facebook group
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