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
"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
"A martyr is not someone who dies but someone who has done what they were meant to do."Augustine of Hippo
"To be courageous and virtuous is to possess the highest of human treasures."Augustine of Hippo
"The philosopher must be willing to stand alone against the masses if reason demands it."Averroes
"The courage to be unpopular is often the price one pays for speaking truth."Averroes
"Cowardice is the only sin."Cicero
"Summon up your courage and do the right thing."Cicero
"Courage is a parent of virtue."Cicero
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgment that something else is more important than fear."Thomas Aquinas
"The virtue of courage is the mean between cowardice and recklessness."Thomas Aquinas
"Anger is a short madness."Seneca
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."Seneca
"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may increase this evil."Seneca
"Refuse to entertain thoughts of failure, and failure will lose its power."Epictetus
"I must die. But must I die groaning? I must be imprisoned. But must I be imprisoned protesting?"Epictetus
"What would you have achieved if you had not feared failure?"Epictetus
"The warrior and the sage are distinguished not by what they encounter, but by how they respond."Epictetus
"The moment when you have just recently escaped some terrible danger is a pleasure worth savoring."Epicureanism Epicurus
"Do not be ashamed to need help. You have a duty to fulfill just like a soldier on the wall of battle."Epicureanism Epicurus
"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
"A man is tormented by no fear when he has ceased to fear death."Epicureanism Epicurus
"To love at all is to be vulnerable."Augustine of Hippo
"The greatest works are often wrought at great hazards."Augustine of Hippo
"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