Courage Quotes

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

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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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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in the face of it"
Charles Darnay
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"I would far rather be excused."
Jane Eyre
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"Better to die than to live as I have lived!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"That old man!—if thou really wilt help me in the struggle with him, I shall win!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"I see the lives for which I lay down my life"
Sydney Carton
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"Courage is not the absence of fear."
Pip
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"Anybody may blame me who likes."
Jane Eyre
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"Better to die than to live in shame."
Roger Chillingworth
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"We are not micros of our circumstances; we are the authors of our fate."
Pip
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"All trials are trials for one's life."
The Narrator
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"How despicably I have acted!"
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Keep your head and heart above the world"
Lucie Manette
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"In times of great trouble, the best of humanity emerges"
The Narrator
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"Better to starve with the symbol than to preserve it"
Hester Prynne
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"I am glad you are no relation of mine; I will not claim you as a relative."
Jane Eyre
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"I am not afraid of fire; I am afraid of falsehood."
Jane Eyre
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"I am afraid of the consequences of leaving such things as they are"
Pip
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"I am not one to despair"
Herbert Pocket
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"It is far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done"
Sydney Carton
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"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me"
Captain Ahab
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"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"My spirit is willing to do what is right"
Jane Eyre
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"There is a quality of magnanimity in misfortune which ennobles even despair"
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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"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."
Ishmael
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"My fear was my weakness and my strength my courage."
Jane Eyre