Courage Quotes
Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.
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"Courage is love in action."Hart Crane
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out at the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."Kurt Vonnegut
"The hard part is making yourself believe in your own vision."William Carlos Williams
"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel"Allen Ginsberg
"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it"Allen Ginsberg
"Every bone in my body tells me that I am mean, that I am small, that I am not good."Jack Kerouac
"Embrace the fear and it will embrace you back."Jack Kerouac
"I learned that you have to be willing to fail to truly succeed."Jack Kerouac
"Courage is armor."Marianne Moore
"Let fiery moments come."Hart Crane
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."Hart Crane
"Courage is the foundation of all virtue."Hilda Doolittle
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."Kurt Vonnegut
"Don't ever change just to impress someone."Kurt Vonnegut
"The dance implies a declaration of faith in the physical."William Carlos Williams
"The duty of the young is to test the old and find what endures."William Carlos Williams
"One must be daring, always. To me daring is the only thing that counts."Hart Crane
"Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell."Allen Ginsberg
"One must have the courage to question everything."Hilda Doolittle
"One must dare to be different."Hilda Doolittle
"Courage is acting despite profound fear."Hilda Doolittle
"Fear and courage are not opposites."Marianne Moore
"Temerity is excellence in disguise sometimes."Marianne Moore
"We must have the courage of our convictions."Marianne Moore
"The courage to imagine is the first courage."Wallace Stevens
"Courage is not the absence of fear but the refusal to let it speak."Jack Kerouac
"If you want to be a great poet, you must not be afraid to be yourself."Amy Lowell
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."Amy Lowell
"The courage to be simple is greater than the courage to be complex."William Carlos Williams
"The act of speaking truth requires courage."William Carlos Williams