Courage Quotes

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

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"The fact is, we are responsible for everything we do; we cannot hide behind society."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"One must be prepared to sacrifice comfort for the sake of authenticity."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Denis Diderot
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"In the end, we only regret the chances we did not take."
Denis Diderot
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"We gain the strength of the tempter when we cease to fear him."
Denis Diderot
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"The privilege of acting is conquered through courage."
Denis Diderot
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"I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"I have resolved to do the right thing, come what may."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"The courage to be oneself is the highest form of bravery."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
André Gide
"The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you moving when you are too tired to move."
André Gide
"Those who have never entered the wolf's den will never win the wolf's skin."
André Gide
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"Calm down, my child. This is just a bad storm."
Voltaire
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"There is no greater monster than that which grows out of silence."
Voltaire
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Voltaire
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"Courage is living despite the certainty of death."
Albert Camus
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is a form of rebellion."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Every act of rebellion reasserts human freedom."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"To be angry is to be alive; to be indifferent is to be dead."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"True courage is to know when to speak and when to be silent."
Montesquieu
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"When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph."
Denis Diderot
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"We must have the courage to follow our convictions."
Denis Diderot
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"The test of courage is not the absence of fear."
Denis Diderot
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"To be human is to be engaged in a perpetual struggle against oppression."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"Despair is often a luxury the oppressed cannot afford."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"To be authentic is to be willing to stand alone if necessary."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"There is nothing to fear except fear itself in the heart of a free man."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in the face of it."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Courage is the first quality of a warrior."
Pierre Corneille