Courage Quotes

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

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"The greatest act of courage is admitting when we are wrong."
Mares, Edwin
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"The courage to be yourself is the bravery all others require."
Mares, Edwin
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"In the face of adversity, courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"What we call impossible is often merely improbable."
Priest, Graham
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"Courage is proceeding despite logical objections."
Priest, Graham
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"We are not prisoners of what is; we are architects of what might be."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"The greatest gift of reason is the ability to transcend immediate reality."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Every counterfactual is an assertion that we are not helpless."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Nolan, Daniel
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"We reason our way through life's greatest challenges."
Beall, Jc
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"The pursuit of truth requires us to abandon the comfort of unexamined conviction."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Virtue lies in the alignment of our knowledge with our actions."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The intellectually courageous admit what they do not know and pursue what they do not understand."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Doubt is not the enemy of belief; it is the crucible in which belief is tested and refined."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The pursuer of truth walks a path that has no final destination."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Epistemological virtue is the practice of caring about truth over comfort."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The thoughtful person acts from conviction, not impulse."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Belief is a choice we make in light of our best judgment."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Courage is fear that said yes anyway."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Courage is acting despite the fear that surrounds us."
Balaguer, Mark
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"We are shaped by what we love and what we fear."
Mares, Edwin
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"Courage is not fearlessness; it is action despite fear."
Mares, Edwin
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"We are not defined by our circumstances, but by how we choose to respond to them."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Courage is acting despite the trembling."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Courage in thought means being willing to hold uncomfortable ideas."
Priest, Graham
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"To think clearly, one must first think dangerously."
Priest, Graham
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"The world needs more people willing to think their own thoughts."
Priest, Graham
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"To think differently is to risk being thought of differently."
Priest, Graham