Courage Quotes

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

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"To die for one's country is such a beautiful thing."
Marius Pontmercy
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"There is no greater madness than to attempt to conquer oneself."
Don Quixote
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"Better to have lost in a noble cause than never to have fought at all."
Don Quixote
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"Despair is the companion of the cowardly."
Don Quixote
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"Honesty requires courage most do not possess."
Levin
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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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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his own enemies and bear arms against himself."
Abbé Faria
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"The worst thing is to sit by and do nothing."
Levin
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"A cowardly knight is a contradiction in terms."
Don Quixote
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"The most difficult thing is to begin."
General Kutuzov
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the assessment that something is more important than fear."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Edmond Dantès
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"What destroys us is often not our enemies, but ourselves"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"True love requires the courage to be vulnerable"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"In the course of my life, I have learned that the greatest victories are those won without swords."
Don Quixote
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"Despair is the only sin without redemption."
Sonya
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"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong"
Edmond Dantès
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"Courage is the conquest of the heart."
Jean Valjean
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"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
Don Quixote
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"It seems, in fact, as though I am a coward, but it cannot be helped."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else is the hardest battle."
Levin
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"Man can endure anything when he knows it must be endured"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"We must not be afraid of bad luck"
General Kutuzov
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"Fortune favors the bold."
Don Quixote
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"Authenticity is the rarest form of courage."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Stand again upon the scaffold with me!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of it."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Man can endure anything if he has something to live for."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"Betrayal is a weapon of the weak."
Edmond Dantès
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"Fortune favors the bold, but only if the bold are also patient."
Sancho Panza