Courage Quotes

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

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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Ann Radcliffe
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"The most respectable woman is she who scorns to align her conduct with the opinions of others."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"It is the duty of every woman to reflect upon the situation of her sex and to redress the wrongs of her own."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"I plead for my sex, not for myself."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"The most despicable thing is to cringe before the great, or be servile to those in power."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Courage is not a physical quality, but a moral virtue."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Nothing is so much to be feared as fear."
Henry Fielding
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"True courage is cool and calm."
Henry Fielding
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"Fortune favors the bold."
Henry Fielding
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"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
Henry Fielding
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in its presence."
George Sand
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"Courage is the first requisite in a woman."
Frances Burney
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"Adversity is the test of character."
Frances Burney
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"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
Frances Burney
"Cowards dream of dangers and wake in a fright."
Daniel Defoe
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
Daniel Defoe
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"Great souls suffer in silence."
Laurence Sterne
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"Fear is the price of venturing into the unknown."
Ann Radcliffe
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"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea, tossed about by uncontrollable forces."
Stendhal
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"I have never suffered unhappiness through lack of money, but I have suffered it through lack of nerve."
Stendhal
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Stendhal
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"Guard within yourself that thing, the absence of which is worse than any affliction."
George Sand
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"What we do in moments of crisis determines who we are."
George Sand
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"We should always avoid what is disagreeable without avoiding what is necessary."
Frances Burney
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it."
Frances Burney
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"To dare is to live boldly."
Frances Burney
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"True courage consists in doing without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."
Henry Fielding
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."
Henry Fielding
"Fear is pain arising from the imagination."
Daniel Defoe
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
Daniel Defoe