Courage Quotes

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

36597 quotes

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