Courage Quotes

Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.

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"Nothing comes to those who do not go out to meet it."
Sherwood Anderson
"We are all afraid of something. The question is what we do about it."
Sherwood Anderson
"To be alive is to constantly choose between comfort and growth."
Sherwood Anderson
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"Action is not necessarily something blood it could be something of mystery it could be something quiet."
Gertrude Stein
G
"Action is not necessarily something blood."
Gertrude Stein
B
"True courage is being afraid but doing it anyway."
Booth Tarkington
B
"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of it."
Booth Tarkington
K
"The more we know ourselves, the less we fear others."
Kate Chopin
K
"The bonds of convention often strangle the voice of the authentic self."
Kate Chopin
K
"The pursuit of passion requires the willingness to face social condemnation."
Kate Chopin
K
"The world fears the woman who thinks for herself."
Kate Chopin
K
"The awakening of conscience leads often to social isolation."
Kate Chopin
K
"The voice of authenticity cannot be permanently silenced."
Kate Chopin
K
"The woman who questions is the woman who transforms."
Kate Chopin
K
"Freedom requires the courage to disappoint those we love."
Kate Chopin
K
"The voice within us grows stronger when we refuse to silence it."
Kate Chopin
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important."
Jack London
J
"I do not fear death; I fear not living."
Jack London
U
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first."
Upton Sinclair
U
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Upton Sinclair
U
"The task before us is to live with courage and die with dignity."
Upton Sinclair
U
"Truth spoken with compassion is more powerful than silence born of fear."
Upton Sinclair
T
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T.S. Eliot
T
"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
T.S. Eliot
T
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does is to see something and tell what it saw."
T.S. Eliot
"The struggle within defines us more than the success without."
Sherwood Anderson
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"If a man has not found something he will die for, he is not fit to live."
Ezra Pound
E
"Courage is the small boy who turns the light off and gets to bed before the room goes dark."
Ezra Pound
G
"You look at me as though I were strange, yet I assure you this is not strange at all."
Gertrude Stein
G
"If you cannot do it, sometimes no one else can do it."
Gertrude Stein