Courage Quotes

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

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"Don't be afraid of being different."
Rita Levi-Montalcini
"The courage to be yourself is the rarest of all virtues."
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Paul Ehrlich
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."
Paul Ehrlich
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."
Paul Ehrlich
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"The courage to question assumptions is the foundation of science."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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"Courage is required to overturn what everyone accepts as true."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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"Courage is the foundation of all scientific progress."
Sydney Brenner
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"Courage is required to admit what you do not yet understand."
Sydney Brenner
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"Courage is required to challenge accepted theories."
Max Delbrück
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"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin"
Hermann Muller
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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Hermann Muller
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"Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes"
Hermann Muller
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage"
Hermann Muller
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"Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of fear"
Hermann Muller
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Oswald Avery
O
"Courage is the willingness to be afraid and act anyway."
Oswald Avery
"The pursuit of knowledge requires courage to challenge established beliefs."
Rita Levi-Montalcini
"The warrior's spirit in science is the refusal to accept defeat."
Rita Levi-Montalcini
"We must be willing to stand alone for what we believe to be true."
Rita Levi-Montalcini
"In the face of the unknown, courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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"Scientific progress demands both courage and caution."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"The laboratory is a place where certainty goes to be tested."
Oswald Avery
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"The courage to be wrong is the foundation of scientific integrity."
Oswald Avery
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"Great discoveries require the courage to challenge conventional thinking."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
C
"The willingness to fail is essential for breakthrough discoveries."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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"The courage to question assumptions drives progress."
Sydney Brenner
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"In research, skepticism is a strength, not a weakness."
Sydney Brenner
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"The courage to be wrong is the foundation of all science."
Sydney Brenner
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"To see what others miss requires courage and persistence."
Sydney Brenner