Courage Quotes

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

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"That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want."
Professor Faber
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"It takes great courage to back truth against the world."
Samuel Hamilton
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"There's no way to triumph truly over an evil thing by avoiding it."
Lee
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather an assessment that something else is more important than fear"
General Kutuzov
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"I ain't gonna let no one hurt Lennie"
George Milton
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"I'm gonna do it like Candy should of done it"
George Milton
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"The book says, 'It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit.'"
Professor Faber
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"Montag, you are looking at a coward."
Professor Faber
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"It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."
Winston Smith
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"Whatever the shadows and whatever the tempests, duty is duty."
Jean Valjean
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"Timidity is the ancestor of all guilt."
Lee
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"The knowledge that you are not alone in the battle makes you braver."
Lee
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"The greatest battles are often those fought within ourselves."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The courage to be oneself is the rarest courage."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Rebellion means a man willing to risk his life for a simple thing."
Winston Smith
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"A man must learn to live with his own uncertainty."
Samuel Hamilton
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"The beast won't come near the fire."
Ralph
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"The only way to go is forward."
Yossarian
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"I would fight for you."
Kurtz
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"I fought with myself too—you don't know how much I fought."
Marlow
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but its transformation"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"You can't hunt if you're afraid."
Jack Merridew
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"True courage is continuing despite fear"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
Old Major
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"One feels an awful thing is about to happen"
Marlow
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"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful"
The Creature
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"I had to face him, and, like the niggers, I had no choice."
Marlow
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"I would be true to the nightmare of my choice."
Marlow
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"I'm not running away from my responsibilities. And it isn't as if I'm saying anything shocking. Planes are dangerous."
Yossarian
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"I don't want to take any more chances with my life."
Yossarian