Courage Quotes

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

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"I hate all bungling as I hate sin, but most of all I hate a bungler's modesty."
Gustave Flaubert
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore."
Gustave Flaubert
"The heart always timely utters its great protests against the evil in the world."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Adversity reveals the true character of a man."
Honoré de Balzac
H
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it."
Honoré de Balzac
J
"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
John Keats
J
"I would jump down Aetna for any great purpose."
John Keats
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it."
William Wordsworth
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"The courage to be yourself is the rarest courage of all."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
L
"Cowards die a thousand deaths, the valiant taste of death but once"
Lord Byron
"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Mary Shelley
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but its transcendence."
Mary Shelley
V
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones."
Victor Hugo
V
"The wounds that honor gives are always worth the medals which brings."
Victor Hugo
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Jane Austen
"My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."
Jane Austen
"To dare is to do; to fear is to fail."
William Wordsworth
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
William Wordsworth
"The greatest act of courage is vulnerability."
William Wordsworth
L
"Those who will not act upon their convictions are worthless."
Lord Byron
L
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
Lord Byron
J
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
J
"One who is afraid is not prepared to die; but one who is prepared to die is not afraid."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
S
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
S
"Courage is grace under pressure."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
J
"I have nothing to confess; I have done nothing to be ashamed of."
John Keats
J
"The world is worth the winning and worth the warring for."
John Keats
J
"All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield."
John Milton
J
"Confidence then bore thee on secure with the other hand that kept the thunder back."
John Milton
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths"
William Shakespeare