Courage Quotes

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

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"Better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."
Aesop
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"It is easy to be brave from a distance."
Aesop
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"Cowards may talk of courage, but it is the brave that are strong."
Aesop
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"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."
Thucydides
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"A city that relies on walls alone, without courage in its people, will surely fall."
Thucydides
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"A city's strength lies not in its walls but in the hearts of its defenders."
Thucydides
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"The nature of true courage is not the absence of fear but the mastery of it."
Thucydides
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"Courage is not the absence of danger; it is the conquest of it."
Thucydides
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"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."
Herodotus
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"A great man is not the one who does not fall, but the one who rises after every fall."
Herodotus
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"One cannot discover new lands without risking losing sight of the shore."
Herodotus
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"To be forgotten is a kind of death; therefore, speak your truth."
Sappho
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"I would rather have one day as a lion than a lifetime as a sheep."
Sappho
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"I do not fear the grave, for I have lived."
Sappho
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"To be vulnerable is to be brave."
Sappho
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"I am not afraid to stand alone, for truth is my company."
Sappho
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"Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies."
Hippocrates
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"Cowards can never be sincere."
Hippocrates
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"The wise man fears not death, but rather a life unfulfilled."
Xenophanes
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"The pursuit of truth requires courage and an open mind."
Xenophanes
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"Fear is the enemy of wisdom; courage is its friend."
Xenophanes
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"To be courageous is not to be unafraid, but to act despite the fear."
Pindar
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"Courage is not the absence of fear."
Anaxagoras
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"The lion does not turn around when a small dog barks."
Aesop
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"Fortune favors the brave, but only those who act with wisdom."
Aesop
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"Even the smallest mouse can roar when cornered."
Aesop
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Aesop
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"Better to face one's demons than to flee them forever."
Aesop
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"Courage grows through confronting fear, not avoiding it."
Aesop
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"In the depths of hardship lies the seed of transformation."
Pindar