Courage Quotes

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

36597 quotes

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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through."
Atticus Finch
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"Courage is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
Jean Valjean
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Edmond Dantès
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"True courage is not the absence of fear but action in spite of it."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."
Dunya
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"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us to try to win."
Atticus Finch
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway."
Atticus Finch
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"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
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"I wanted to see what it was like, I wanted to see what real courage was."
Scout Finch
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Monte Cristo
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"Her heart was full of rebellious longings."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"I want to suffer too"
Alexei (Alyosha) Karamazov
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"Gatsby, believe it or not, you're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
Nick Carraway
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"I wanted to dare, and I did dare"
Raskolnikov
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"Courage is a muscle we develop by using it."
Marius Pontmercy
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"When the soul is full of love, it cannot be full of fear."
Jean Valjean
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"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
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"I'm not scared."
Jem Finch
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through."
Atticus Finch
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"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."
Scout Finch
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"I was not so sure, but Atticus seemed confident that real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin."
Scout Finch
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"A man can endure anything if he knows it is his duty."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"To fear is natural; to overcome fear is heroic."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"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
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway."
Atticus Finch
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"To live is to fight; to fight is to conquer"
Edmond Dantès
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"To die is nothing; but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
Edmond Dantès
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"Fear is the greatest prison, and courage is the only key."
Monte Cristo
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"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
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"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."
Scout Finch