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