Courage Quotes

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

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"Intellectual cowardice is the greatest sin."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the refusal to be enslaved by it."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The moment of crisis is the moment of truth."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Every person should be certain about their place in this world."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"One should cultivate the courage to be willing to suffer."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"How one despises a coward."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"To live dangerously is to live against habit."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Silence is the demon's trap; speech is the Christian's sword."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"To be a warrior one must have already lost hope."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"To be radical is to grasp things by the root."
Marx, Karl
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"Reason is the subversive force that must destroy the despotism of custom."
Marx, Karl
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"Courage is the willingness to challenge established power."
Marx, Karl
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"Sapere aude! Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The fear of death is the greatest impediment to living."
Kant, Immanuel
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"A man must have the courage to follow his conscience."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The tragic hero is noble in their downfall."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Courage consists in facing necessity without illusion."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Whatever the world may say of me, I am confident that my doctrine is sound and true"
Berkeley, George
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it"
Berkeley, George
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"To surrender one's conscience to another is to surrender one's humanity."
Mill, John Stuart
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"The greatest obstacle to human advancement is the fear of change."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"True courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of it."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"To love is to risk not being loved in return."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"The essential thing is not to run away, but to face oneself."
Kierkegaard, Søren