Courage Quotes

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

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"Once more unto the breach, dear friends"
William Shakespeare
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"Cowardice is a disease"
William Shakespeare
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Lord Byron
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"I am not afraid of death; I am afraid of not living."
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation - and sensation requires courage."
Lord Byron
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"Cowards suffer a thousand deaths; the brave die but once."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Success is the child of audacity."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Few men are born brave; many become so through training and force of habit."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"All is not lost; the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield."
John Milton
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"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
John Keats
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"The world seems against me; yet I have not the least fear of defeat."
John Keats
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"The better part of valor is discretion"
William Shakespeare
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths"
William Shakespeare
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"Tis nobler in the mind to suffer slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"
William Shakespeare
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"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more"
William Shakespeare
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Lord Byron
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"There is nothing nobler than a man who continues in the face of adversity."
Lord Byron
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"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Dante Alighieri
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it through adherence to principle."
William Wordsworth
"Hardily for to foughten in his courages."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"The test of courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The man who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"One man of courage is a majority."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe