Courage Quotes
Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.
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"The task is not to flee from evil but to conquer it."Henrik Ibsen
"The courage to be ordinary is often the most extraordinary."Henrik Ibsen
"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of it."Henrik Ibsen
"There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear."Boris Pasternak
"The nature of man is to resist the unbearable."Boris Pasternak
"A man who does not believe in himself is a coward."Boris Pasternak
"In facing our fears, we discover our true courage."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"I am not one of those women who leave by the door. I took my fate into my own hands."Anna Akhmatova
"I have learned that the greatest courage is to continue when all seems lost."Anna Akhmatova
"I choose to stand alone rather than kneel in false fellowship."Anna Akhmatova
"The muse rewards not the comfortable, but the courageous."Anna Akhmatova
"I choose to speak, even if my voice trembles, for silence is complicity."Anna Akhmatova
"The heart of creativity is courage."Vladimir Nabokov
"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."August Strindberg
"The most important battle is the one fought within oneself."August Strindberg
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather an assessment that something else is more important than fear."Selma Lagerlöf
"Real courage is in facing oneself, not in facing enemies."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of it."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone."Henrik Ibsen
"The greatest strength lies not in muscles but in moral courage."Henrik Ibsen
"The struggle against a hostile universe is what gives life meaning."Henrik Ibsen
"Truth without courage is sterile."Henrik Ibsen
"A man should have the courage to admit he was wrong."Henrik Ibsen
"Courage is the acceptance of pain and suffering without whimpering."Boris Pasternak
"Arrest brings a person face to face with himself and strips away the irrelevant."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"A person crushed by forces beyond his control may still choose how he responds to his fate."Alexander Solzhenitsyn