Courage Quotes

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

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"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right."
Pip
M
"Better to have fought and lost, than never to have fought at all."
Mr. Bennet
J
"Courage is a thing that cannot be given away; you either have it or you don't."
Javert
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"Thou shalt not go out from this door!"
Hester Prynne
E
"Compromise is the language of cowards."
Edmond Dantès
M
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Magwitch
J
"The greatest victory is the victory over oneself."
Jean Valjean
E
"I am not afraid of you, sir."
Elizabeth Bennet
J
"I would not change for all your estates!"
Jane Eyre
J
"I have learned to love without fear."
Jane Eyre
E
"I am not afraid of you."
Elizabeth Bennet
A
"Be firm, be sure of yourself, be confident in your strength."
Abbé Faria
P
"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right."
Pip
S
"I go to my fate with a light heart."
Sydney Carton
J
"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as any.—"
Jane Eyre
E
"I am prepared for the very worst."
Edmond Dantès
I
"The sea tests a man's character more truly than any judge."
Ishmael
E
"I have courage enough to tell you what I think."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I am afraid I am a coward."
Pip
P
"I am afraid I am a moral coward."
Pip
S
"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
J
"I would far rather be excused."
Jane Eyre
J
"I would almost sooner die than take poison deliberately administered by a supposed friend."
Jane Eyre
J
"I am resolved to be myself."
Jane Eyre
M
"I should have made my avowal sooner but timidity forbade."
Mr. Rochester
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"Courage is not the absence of fear."
Edmond Dantès
A
"Never! It never can be!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Art thou not afraid of nightmares and hideous dreams?"
Pearl
C
"I would strike the sun if it insulted me"
Captain Ahab
E
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened away."
Elizabeth Bennet