Courage Quotes
Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.
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"Action is character."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The test of courage is not to die, but to live."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The fault, dear friend, is not in our stars but within ourselves."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Courage is grace under pressure."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Society often punishes those who dare to question its conventions."Theodore Dreiser
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"I have learned that the greatest victories come from the smallest acts of courage."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man."Edith Wharton
"Courage is not the absence of fear but its transformation into purpose."Edith Wharton
"The greatest tragedy is not failure but the fear that prevents us from trying."Edith Wharton
"Courage is the quality which guards the other virtues."James Fenimore Cooper
"Courage is doing what is right despite fear."James Fenimore Cooper
"Every person is a hero if they choose to be."Sinclair Lewis
"The greatest tragedy is not failure, but the fear that prevents us from trying."Sinclair Lewis
"Courage is being afraid and doing it anyway."Sinclair Lewis
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."Louisa May Alcott
"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."Louisa May Alcott
"Honest heart can never come to shame or sorrow."Washington Irving
"The path of true courage lies in doing what is right, regardless of fear."Washington Irving
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."Washington Irving
"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor."Willa Cather
"Courage, after all, is not being unafraid; it is being afraid and yet proceeding onward."Willa Cather
"If we never had any fear, we could never be brave."Willa Cather
"The greatest courage is admitting the limits of our own understanding."Theodore Dreiser
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it through will."James Fenimore Cooper
"Tradition should inspire, not imprison."Edith Wharton
"To be courageous is not to be unafraid, but to proceed despite fear."Edith Wharton
"Courage is grace under pressure."Edith Wharton
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."Harriet Beecher Stowe