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, sir."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"I shall await the future with courage and faith."
Edmond Dantès
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"Without danger we do not gain glory."
Don Quixote
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"True courage is accompanied by prudence."
Don Quixote
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"Better to die of despair than to live a lie."
Hester Prynne
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"Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst."
Mr. Bennet
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"My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Valor lies just halfway between cowardice and rashness."
Don Quixote
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"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all."
Don Quixote
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"God keep me!—Push not a demoniac further than he has gone, and give not winds his prayed curse."
Starbuck
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"Strike through the mask! How and why the dramatic theatre shall yet enact unwritten chapters."
Captain Ahab
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important."
Jean Valjean
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"I would challenge God himself if I thought it would serve my purpose"
Edmond Dantès
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"I came, I was wronged, and I took my vengeance"
Monte Cristo
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"There is honor in acknowledging one's mistakes."
Pip
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"Be not silent from fear!"
Hester Prynne
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"In life there is nothing to fear but fear itself."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The true measure of courage is facing what terrifies us most."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I am not afraid of you."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"There is no greater madness than to give up certainties for possibilities."
Don Quixote
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"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all."
Don Quixote
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"Courage is not the absence of fear."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Fear is the greatest enemy of progress."
Edmond Dantès
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"It is often better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness"
Alexei Vronsky
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"A knight errant who turns mad for good reason has right on his side."
Don Quixote
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"The greatest good is freedom from fear."
Don Quixote
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"Despair is the refuge of the weak-willed"
Edmond Dantès
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"I cannot endure this suffering any longer."
Raskolnikov