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."Samuel Beckett
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."Oscar Wilde
"The struggle against evil is the struggle for the soul itself."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important."Leo Tolstoy
"Fear and courage are not opposites; they are companions on the journey."Leo Tolstoy
"The difficulty is that I am mad about writing, but I am a coward about living."James Joyce
"People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a man faces up to it and takes the dare out of it, it may not be so awful."James Joyce
"The only way out is through."Samuel Beckett
"We need not fear the future."Samuel Beckett
"Real courage consists of enduring the unbearable patiently."Anton Chekhov
"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."George Bernard Shaw
"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."George Bernard Shaw
"Where there is sorrow, there too can be found courage."William Butler Yeats
"To live is to choose, and to choose is to accept the weight of consequence."William Butler Yeats
"Well, what is it? Out with it!"Thomas Hardy
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."Thomas Hardy
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."Oscar Wilde
"The only way out is through."Samuel Beckett
"There is more enterprise in walking naked."Samuel Beckett
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."James Joyce
"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in its presence."James Joyce
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."Leo Tolstoy
"We fear not because we are weak, but because we forget our strength."Leo Tolstoy
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."George Eliot
"A woman, let her be as good as she may, has not often a reliable courage to her goodness."George Eliot
"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."Thomas Hardy
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but victory over it."Thomas Hardy
"No coward soul is mine."Anne Brontë
"Courage is fear transformed."Anne Brontë
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation."William Butler Yeats