Courage Quotes

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

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"The study of being demands both intellectual courage and philosophical humility."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"To question what exists is to honor the pursuit of truth."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to act despite it."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"In the face of uncertainty, we discover who we truly are."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Courage grows stronger with each time we choose it."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Smith, Barry
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"The only way out is through."
Smith, Barry
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"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."
Smith, Barry
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"A coward dies a thousand deaths; the valiant taste of death but once."
Smith, Barry
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"The greatest tragedy is not failure, but the failure to attempt."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Authenticity is rare because it requires the courage to be disliked."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Conformity is the enemy of progress."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Silence is complicity."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Genius is talent exercised with courage."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Philosophical inquiry demands intellectual courage and honest skepticism."
Balaguer, Mark
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"True understanding requires grappling with uncomfortable questions."
Balaguer, Mark
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"We progress in understanding by following the arguments wherever they lead."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Intellectual courage involves defending unpopular but defensible positions."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Truth requires the courage to examine our assumptions."
Montague, Richard
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but friendship with it."
Smith, Barry
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"Courage is action despite overwhelming doubt."
Smith, Barry
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"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Moral progress requires active resistance to injustice."
Chomsky, Noam
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity, but only for those who seek it."
Rosen, Gideon
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"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
Rosen, Gideon
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"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."
Perry, John
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"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
Perry, John
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"The only true failure is the failure to try."
Perry, John
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, it's action in the face of fear."
Perry, John