Courage Quotes

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

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"The heart that is conscious of its own rectitude, fears nothing."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"To live authentically is to invite persecution."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear."
Christina Rossetti
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"To defy power, which seems omnipotent to the powerless, is the only way to assure its defeat."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"In darkness we must find our own light."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"True courage is facing fear with grace."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."
Jonathan Swift
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"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected."
Jonathan Swift
"Fortune favors those who dare to question convention."
Eliza Haywood
"A life lived authentically is worth more than a thousand lives of comfortable pretense."
Eliza Haywood
"A single voice speaking truth can shake the foundations of comfortable lies."
Eliza Haywood
"To choose oneself is the most courageous decision a woman can make."
Eliza Haywood
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Aphra Behn
"Courage whispers when fear shouts."
Aphra Behn
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."
Samuel Johnson
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"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived."
Samuel Johnson
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"To think yourself into peace requires courage to face what you've been avoiding."
Samuel Johnson
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"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires."
William Blake
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it."
Christina Rossetti
"Fear is the thief of dreams; courage is the guardian of hope."
Christina Rossetti
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"Fear is the parent of cruelty; courage is the parent of virtue."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action taken despite it."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"A brave man dies but once, a coward many times."
Aphra Behn
"To be yourself in a world of conformity is an act of rebellion."
Aphra Behn
"Every moment of hesitation is a moment of weakness surrendered."
Aphra Behn
"Fortune favors those who dare to question society's constraints."
Eliza Haywood
"To love without expectation of return is the highest form of courage."
Eliza Haywood
"The bravest act is to remain true when the world demands compromise."
Eliza Haywood