Courage Quotes

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

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"The most important battles are fought in the silence of the human heart."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but speaking truth anyway."
Anna Akhmatova
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"The truth demands that we be brave enough to speak it."
Anna Akhmatova
"Nobility is not about birth, but about the courage to live by your convictions."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it."
Maxim Gorky
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"Suffering ennobles the human spirit."
Maxim Gorky
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"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"I have no physical courage, but considerable moral courage."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in spite of it."
August Strindberg
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"The majority is never right until it has to be."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Courage is not found in the absence of fear, but in action despite it."
Henrik Ibsen
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"The only real failure is refusing to try."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Courage is not the absence of doubt but action in spite of it."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but indifference to it."
Boris Pasternak
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"There is nothing more noble than to be true to oneself."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
Nikolai Gogol
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"A man is to be pitied who cannot find in himself strength enough to live."
Maxim Gorky
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"I walk beside you on this terrible road, but I do not look at you."
Anna Akhmatova
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"To be a woman is to be a battlefield—the war is eternal, the victory uncertain."
Anna Akhmatova
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"I do not fear death; I fear never having truly lived."
Anna Akhmatova
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"To be a woman and a poet is to be twice exiled."
Anna Akhmatova
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"We know them not only by what they did, but by the intensity of their conviction."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"To stand up for truth is nothing; at least one must stand up for it alone."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"A single act of authenticity is more powerful than a thousand lies."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but its subordination."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Courage is the first requirement of a leader."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Courage faces the unknown."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"We create our own demons through our inaction."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Forgiveness is the strength of the truly brave."
Nikolai Gogol