Courage Quotes

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

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Seneca
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"Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it."
Seneca
"Death smiles at us all, but a soldier can only smile back."
Marcus Aurelius
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Marcus Aurelius
"He who fears not death fears nothing."
Marcus Aurelius
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"A martyr is not someone who dies but someone who has done what they were meant to do."
Augustine of Hippo
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"To be courageous and virtuous is to possess the highest of human treasures."
Augustine of Hippo
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"The philosopher must be willing to stand alone against the masses if reason demands it."
Averroes
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"The courage to be unpopular is often the price one pays for speaking truth."
Averroes
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"Cowardice is the only sin."
Cicero
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"Summon up your courage and do the right thing."
Cicero
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"Courage is a parent of virtue."
Cicero
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
Thomas Aquinas
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"The virtue of courage is the mean between cowardice and recklessness."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Anger is a short madness."
Seneca
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Seneca
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"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may increase this evil."
Seneca
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"Refuse to entertain thoughts of failure, and failure will lose its power."
Epictetus
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"I must die. But must I die groaning? I must be imprisoned. But must I be imprisoned protesting?"
Epictetus
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"What would you have achieved if you had not feared failure?"
Epictetus
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"The warrior and the sage are distinguished not by what they encounter, but by how they respond."
Epictetus
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"The moment when you have just recently escaped some terrible danger is a pleasure worth savoring."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"Do not be ashamed to need help. You have a duty to fulfill just like a soldier on the wall of battle."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"I am not afraid of god, nor of death; for what is good is easy to obtain, and the terrible is easy to endure."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"A man is tormented by no fear when he has ceased to fear death."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"To love at all is to be vulnerable."
Augustine of Hippo
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"The greatest works are often wrought at great hazards."
Augustine of Hippo
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"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Augustine of Hippo
"It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live."
Marcus Aurelius
"When you face hardship, remember: you are made stronger by overcoming it."
Marcus Aurelius