Courage Quotes
Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.
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"Destiny cannot be avoided, but it can be conquered."Jean Valjean
"I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."John the Savage
"McMurphy's got more guts than the rest of us put together."Billy Bibbit
"A man's got to stand up for something."Randle McMurphy
"Sometimes you have to risk everything."Randle McMurphy
"I'm not saying they're gonna be easy to get around, Billy, I'm just saying it can be done if you're willing to take some chances."Randle McMurphy
"The only way out is to refuse to fly any more missions."Yossarian
"They can torture you, they can destroy you, but they cannot make you believe things that are obviously false."Winston Smith
"No one is responsible for our misfortunes but ourselves"Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"To live is to act, and to act is to risk failure"Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger."John the Savage
"I want you to know I'm not a slow learner—it's just that my mind is operating on a different wavelength."Billy Bibbit
"I ain't crazy, I'm just different."Randle McMurphy
"I'm tired of being treated like a child."Billy Bibbit
"He showed us that resistance was possible."Chief Bromden
"That man had more guts than all of us combined."Cheswick
"Some people are worth defending. Some people aren't."Yossarian
"I need to know if you're a man or a mouse."Randle McMurphy
"Silence is a form of resistance."Jean Valjean
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do."Fantine
"Men are not born for defeat"Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"I'm not a fool. I just don't give a damn."Randle McMurphy
"Sometimes courage means saying no."Billy Bibbit
"You have to be willing to lose everything."Randle McMurphy
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger."John the Savage
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."Winston Smith
"A man's got to stand up for what he believes in, even in a place like this."Randle McMurphy
"A man who won't fight for something is already lost."Randle McMurphy
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but acting despite it"Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"All he knew was that he could not fly another mission."Yossarian