Courage Quotes

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

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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Courage grows with each brave action."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"One must have heart to succeed in art"
Théophile Gautier
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"Courage is fear that has said its prayers"
Théophile Gautier
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"Fortune favours the brave but abandons the timid"
Théophile Gautier
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but fear that says its prayers and goes forward."
Charles Baudelaire
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to act despite it."
Paul Verlaine
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"Every genuine creation is an act of rebellion."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Courage is not fearlessness but action despite fear."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Courage is a muscle strengthened by use."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"True courage is not the absence of fear, but its mastery."
Théophile Gautier
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"Courage is not the absence of doubt, but action despite doubt."
Théophile Gautier
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but triumph over it."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Courage is grace under pressure."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it"
Guy de Maupassant
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"Do not accept the things you cannot change, change the things you cannot accept."
George Sand
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
George Sand
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."
George Sand
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
George Sand
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"Courage is simply continuing when you wish to stop."
Gérard de Nerval
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"To live authentically is to risk everything comfortable."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The measure of a man is not in his victories, but in his dignity during defeat."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"To live courageously is to live authentically."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Boredom is the only thing that attacks heroes."
Stendhal
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"The only shame is to have none."
Stendhal