Courage Quotes

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

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"The courage to change is greater than the courage to endure."
François Mauriac
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"The greatest courage is to be true to oneself when the world demands you be false."
Anatole France
"We must learn to live as if it's wartime in the soul."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"To have failed one's self is to have failed everyone."
Henry James
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of it."
Henry James
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"Character is built not in moments of triumph but in moments of failure."
Henry James
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"Courage is the only emotion we cannot feign."
Marcel Proust
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"In the end, we only regret the chances we did not take."
Marcel Proust
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
André Gide
"The most decisive actions of our life are most often unconsidered actions."
André Gide
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
André Gide
"True courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."
André Gide
"One must be prepared to go to any length in pursuit of one's convictions."
André Gide
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"I rebel; therefore, I exist."
Albert Camus
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"Plague brings death and suffering to everyone; perhaps that is its blessing."
Albert Camus
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"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
Albert Camus
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"There is a courage in facing down evil, even if you achieve nothing by it."
Albert Camus
"Heroism is not the way out. Heroism is the way in."
Romain Rolland
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the action taken in spite of it."
Romain Rolland
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"I am not afraid of God. I am an atheist."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"I am not afraid to die."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"To live is to choose, and to choose is to take a risk."
Anatole France
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"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."
Anatole France
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather an assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Anatole France
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Anatole France
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"True courage is like a kite—a contrary wind raises it higher."
Montesquieu
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"Courage without wisdom is folly."
Montesquieu
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion"
Jean-Paul Sartre