Courage Quotes
Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.
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"I'm in bad shape. I'm really in bad shape."J.D. Salinger
"Squares are afraid of people who are not afraid of them."William S. Burroughs
"I am here, queer, and I don't care."William S. Burroughs
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness"Allen Ginsberg
"Fear is the lock and laughter is the key"Allen Ginsberg
"Courage is facing your fears"Allen Ginsberg
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."Kurt Vonnegut
"We have to continually jump off cliffs and develop our wings on the way down."Kurt Vonnegut
"My first rule: don't be ashamed."Kurt Vonnegut
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."Jack Kerouac
"I was not afraid anymore."Jack Kerouac
"It is often better to light a flamethrower than to curse the darkness."Joseph Heller
"Silence is complicity; speaking out is courage."Joseph Heller
"The only way out is through."William S. Burroughs
"Forget all the rules you ever learned."William S. Burroughs
"The world is built on the backs of men who understood that fear is just an opinion."Norman Mailer
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers and moved forward anyway."Norman Mailer
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness"Allen Ginsberg
"Being yourself is a revolutionary act in a world that wants conformity"Allen Ginsberg
"The only way out is through."William S. Burroughs
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."William S. Burroughs
"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take."William Carlos Williams
"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."William Carlos Williams
"Better to spend one day awake than a thousand days asleep."Jack Kerouac
"Courage is being terrified and doing it anyway."Jack Kerouac
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are"e.e. cummings
"In a world of yes, dare to say no"e.e. cummings
"The crazy brave who risk all they have for all they might become"e.e. cummings
"I am unequal to any comparison. Whether I write or act or live, I do so to the full as always against all odds."Hart Crane
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."Hart Crane