Courage Quotes

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

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"I choose myself before all others."
Jane Eyre
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"I am not afraid of ghosts or shadows."
Jane Eyre
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"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right."
Pip
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"If you could hear the gallop of my heart."
Charles Darnay
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"To be enraged with you for sailing in an uneasy ship."
Captain Ahab
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"A dead whale or a stove boat!"
Captain Ahab
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"Cowards are the greatest talkers."
Herbert Pocket
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"Better to die than to live as I have lived!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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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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"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength with an inscrutable malice."
Captain Ahab
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"Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest."
Starbuck
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"Better to die than to live and not to know."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"I would not change for all the treasures of the world."
Jane Eyre
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"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!"
Jane Eyre
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"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."
Jean Valjean
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"In the shadow of the night, there are men and women, willing to lay down their lives"
The Narrator
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"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!"
Jane Eyre
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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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"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"
Sydney Carton
S
"I see death coming, and I do not fear it"
Sydney Carton
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"These are the times that test men's souls"
The Narrator
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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 have as much soul as you,—more than you will ever have!"
Jane Eyre
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"I am glad you are no relation of mine."
Jane Eyre
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"Of penance, I have had enough!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Better to die once, than to live in this anguish forever."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"I am not such a coward as to be afraid of my cousin's displeasure."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Feeling as if I had no longer any cause to remain in the house, I prepared to quit it."
Jane Eyre
J
"I would risk the shot to prove I could do better than you."
Jane Eyre