Courage Quotes

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

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"Courage grows with each act of bravery."
Giordano Bruno
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"True courage is facing the truth about oneself."
Baltasar Gracián
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"Fear often guards the door to opportunity."
Baltasar Gracián
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"The man who fears nothing has nothing to lose."
Baltasar Gracián
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"Those who fear failure have already surrendered the possibility of excellence."
Raphael Sanzio
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"The artist must be willing to walk a path that society does not yet understand or approve."
Raphael Sanzio
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"To abandon fear in the pursuit of one's vision is to discover the freedom that only courage can unlock."
Raphael Sanzio
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"The brave soul defends not what is known, but what must become known."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"In facing our fears, we discover the architecture of our own courage."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"To speak truth in times of deception is a revolutionary act."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"Man's nature is not to be ashamed of anything."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"To die for one's country is glorious; to truly live for it is harder."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"The only true failure is the failure to try."
Desiderius Erasmus
"A man's worth is measured not by his words but by his deeds."
Thomas More
"True courage is doing what is right despite the cost."
Thomas More
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Michel de Montaigne
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"Cowardice and courage are not matters of absence or presence of fear, but of how we act in the face of it."
Michel de Montaigne
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"If we fear nothing, we are not truly brave; we are simply foolish."
Michel de Montaigne
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"Fear is the prison of the soul; courage is its liberation."
Giordano Bruno
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"The greatest works are born not from certainty, but from the courage to explore uncertainty."
Raphael Sanzio
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"The canvas awaits those brave enough to face it."
Raphael Sanzio
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"To create beauty in a world of chaos is an act of resistance."
Raphael Sanzio
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"The artist must be willing to fail spectacularly in pursuit of excellence."
Raphael Sanzio
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"The greatest achievements come to those who dare greatly."
Raphael Sanzio
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"I would rather be ridiculed than pitied."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"The happiness of a man consists not in the absence of suffering but in his courage to bear it."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"The man who fears nothing is not brave, he is merely foolish."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"Courage is not the absence of doubt, but action despite it."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"Courage is not bravery; it is proceeding despite reasonable fear."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"My invention is but a tool; it is human courage that uses it."
Johannes Gutenberg