Courage Quotes
Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.
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"Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."Don Quixote
"What seem like giants to the fearful are but windmills to the brave."Don Quixote
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that the very existence is an act of rebellion."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Better to die at once"Arthur Dimmesdale
"Tears wash the soul clean."Dmitri Karamazov
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it."Edmond Dantès
"Her passion was her downfall."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"One must have faith in oneself, I tell you."Natasha Rostova
"Courage is the mastery of fear"Don Quixote
"A man must be willing to lose everything to gain his soul back."Monte Cristo
"Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through."Atticus Finch
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."Atticus Finch
"Real courage is when you know you're licked but you fight anyway."Atticus Finch
"My father in his quiet way was the bravest man who ever lived."Scout Finch
"That's what I mean by real courage, as opposed to physical courage."Atticus Finch
"She learned too late that passion and dignity cannot coexist"Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Ignorance is the bliss of cowardice."Ivan Karamazov
"Her desperation took the form of recklessness"Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"To die is nothing, but to live without glory is to die every day."Edmond Dantès
"The greatest act of courage is to admit one's weakness."Dmitri Karamazov
"One must always be ready to make a sacrifice."Marya Bolkonskaya
"The cruelty of fate is that it crushes the innocent."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"She was the author of her own tragedy."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."Atticus Finch
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."Atticus Finch
"Real courage is when you know you're licked and you do it anyway."Atticus Finch
"The moment of battle is a moment of truth."Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear"Edmond Dantès
"I wanted to dare, and that's all there is to it."Raskolnikov
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."Atticus Finch