Courage Quotes

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

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"I have absolutely no fear of dying; I fear only a life unlived."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence."
Emily Dickinson
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"If your nerve deny you, go above your nerve."
Emily Dickinson
"Courage is not the absence of fear."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anything."
Henry James
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"Tell a man he's brave, and you help him become so."
Henry James
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"The greatest tragedy is indifference."
François Mauriac
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"The greatest enemy of our souls is not evil, but mediocrity."
François Mauriac
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
François Mauriac
"Cautiousness is the parent of safety, but not of greatness."
Mark Twain
"I was not timid in those days; I would do things, and take the consequences."
Mark Twain
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep."
Herman Melville
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"The monster of convention is always lurking to drag down those who dare."
Herman Melville
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"Cruelty is a coward's weapon."
Herman Melville
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"At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice."
Anatole France
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"We have the duty to defend life."
Anatole France
"Courage is fear that has simply decided not to run."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Courage is simply proceeding despite the certainty of failure."
François Mauriac
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"The greatest acts of courage often go unwitnessed and unpraise."
François Mauriac
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"The courage to fail is the prerequisite for any real achievement."
François Mauriac
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"Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence."
Emily Dickinson
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"It was not death for I stood up and all the dead cried out."
Emily Dickinson
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"I read my sentence steadily."
Emily Dickinson
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"If we were never to take risks, we would never accomplish anything at all."
Henry James
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"How can a man achieve anything great who is not willing to risk it?"
Henry James
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."
Mark Twain