Courage Quotes

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

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"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."
Perry, John
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"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."
Perry, John
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"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
Perry, John
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"True courage is action taken despite genuine fear, not its absence."
Smith, Barry
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"Courage is not heroism; it is showing up when showing up requires something from you."
Smith, Barry
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"We must be willing to revise our conception of what is real."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"We should follow the arguments wherever they lead, even if uncomfortable."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The puzzle of existence cannot be avoided by ignoring it."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The search for truth requires both intellectual courage and profound humility."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right."
Kaplan, David
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Kaplan, David
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"Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded."
Kaplan, David
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but fear that has said its prayers."
Perry, John
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"Courage is fear that has prayed."
Perry, John
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"Resistance is not futile when grounded in historical understanding and moral courage."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of justified concerns."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to act despite its presence."
Smith, Barry
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"The courage to be ourselves is the greatest gift we can give the world."
Smith, Barry
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"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
Perry, John
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."
Perry, John
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Perry, John
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"Do something every day that scares you."
Perry, John
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"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
Perry, John
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"True progress requires questioning authority at every level."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Passive acceptance of authority is learned, not natural."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Dissent requires both intellectual resources and moral resilience."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."
Burge, Tyler
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Burge, Tyler
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it."
Burge, Tyler
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"Courage grows with every challenge faced."
Burge, Tyler