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