Courage Quotes

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

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