Courage Quotes

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

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"I have often been afraid, but I would not let the fear paralyze me."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Courage is more exhilarating than fear."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"To face reality squarely; not to sit on the fence; to be decisive."
Leon Trotsky
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"Comfort and luxury do not matter. What matters is the revolution."
Leon Trotsky
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"Adaptation to the established order is the death of revolutionary spirit."
Leon Trotsky
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"Dare to think, dare to act, dare to be the first."
Mao Zedong
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"We are surrounded by enemies and must be vigilant"
Joseph Stalin
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"Courage is commitment to ideology"
Joseph Stalin
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"Cowards are as much in evidence in Fascism as in democracy."
Benito Mussolini
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"A leader must be willing to stand alone."
Benito Mussolini
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"The best way to describe my feelings would be to imagine myself in a raging sea during a storm."
Vladimir Lenin
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill
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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill
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"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something."
Winston Churchill
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"What kind of people do they think we are?"
Winston Churchill
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"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it."
Winston Churchill
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"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed, you may come to a time when you will have to fight with bloodshed."
Winston Churchill
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"There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."
Winston Churchill
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather an assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"In times of crisis, mediocrity reveals itself as cowardice."
Leon Trotsky
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"The most courageous act is to admit one's mistakes and learn from them."
Vladimir Lenin
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"Courage is more exhilarating than fear"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for an idea you believe in before it is fashionable to do so"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Do what you know is right, regardless of what others think"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Courage is the absence of fear."
Joseph Stalin