Courage Quotes

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

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"Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death, or of not living at all?"
Marcus Aurelius
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"Refuse to be disheartened by what you cannot control."
Marcus Aurelius
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"The spirit of man is a wonderful thing. It can be buried and compressed under a million tons of tyranny, and still it will in the end prevail."
Winston Smith
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"Rebellion means a man willing to die for something."
Winston Smith
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"Rebellion against the Party was an act of despair."
Winston Smith
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"I do not wish to know whether I shall live or die."
Winston Smith
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"I enjoyed it. I was glad when they failed."
Julia
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"The only real power comes from doing what others fear to do."
O'Brien
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"Do not suppose that you will save yourself. You will die. But you may die with the knowledge that you have done your duty."
O'Brien
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"It takes true courage to admit one's mistakes and move forward."
Pip
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"Mystery makes me curious, not fearful."
Jane Eyre
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"I am not afraid of you, and not angry with you."
Jane Eyre
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"I am not afraid of you."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Such is the fact—it cost me all the fortitude I possessed to proceed."
Mr. Darcy
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"You have said quite enough, madam."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"It may be that you are not to blame for your circumstances."
Pip
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"Courage was glowing in the breast of this brave man"
The Narrator
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"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done"
Sydney Carton
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"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"What does it matter whether I am afraid or not?"
Jane Eyre
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"I am not afraid of you."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right."
Pip
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"I am a coward in letting thee linger here so miserably!"
Hester Prynne
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"Let the black flower blossom as it may!"
Hester Prynne
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"My conscience and my honour are concerned in this matter."
Jane Eyre
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"I am not afraid of you."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known"
Sydney Carton
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"A day may come when the courage of men fails, but it is not this day"
Sydney Carton
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"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right."
Pip
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"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things."
Lord Henry Wotton