Courage Quotes

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

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"In the end, I had to face what I had done"
Amir
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"I had to go back to Afghanistan, to face my past"
Amir
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"I was afraid not for myself but for Richard Parker."
Pi Patel
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"All right, then, I'll go to hell"
Huckleberry Finn
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"I am not afraid of anything."
Jo March
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"I wish I could be brave the way you were."
Laila
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"I will not be afraid."
Laila
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"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything"
Baba
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"There is no courage without fear"
Baba
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"I am not afraid. I have already been dead for so long."
Mariam
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"My suffering left me sad and gloomy."
Pi Patel
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"I made a decision in my mind."
Pi Patel
J
"I wish I was a boy so I could fight in the war like Father."
Jo March
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"The question is whether you will have the courage to face it."
Marmee
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"A man who won't stand up for anything will fall for anything."
Baba
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"I would have saved myself years of grief if I had just learned to say no."
Amir
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"The only way to stand up to bullies is to stand together."
Hassan
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"It was a close call, and I knowed I was safe now."
Huckleberry Finn
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"I had to create a life raft in my mind. I had to convince myself that I would not die."
Pi Patel
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"The world breaks everyone. Some become strong in the broken places."
Pi Patel
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"The cold water shocked the air right out of my lungs"
Amir
B
"A man who doesn't stand up for himself is a man who can't stand up to anything"
Baba
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"All right, then, I'll go to hell."
Huckleberry Finn
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"I was a coward, and I knew it."
Huckleberry Finn
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"I chose to live. That choice made all the difference."
Pi Patel
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"I've seen things that would break a man's spirit."
Sheriff Bell
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"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here."
Celie
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"I ain't the man for this job no more"
Sheriff Bell
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"I'd rather it happens in the light."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I must come out, I must emerge."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)