Courage Quotes

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

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"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."
Nelson Mandela
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"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through valley of the shadow of death again and again."
Nelson Mandela
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"I am in prison as the representative of the people and of the organization I have served."
Nelson Mandela
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"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
Nelson Mandela
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"Courage is not the ability to overcome fear, but the triumph over it."
Nelson Mandela
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it only takes one courageous effort to result in further opportunities for courage."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Courage is action in spite of fear and doubt, not the absence of fear and doubt."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Mahatma Gandhi
"A truly brave person conquers by fighting, but the cowardly simply surrender without a battle."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather an assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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"Danger: when you meet it, do not think how dreadful it is, but think how proud it will make you afterwards."
Winston Churchill
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
Winston Churchill
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"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin"
Jorge Edwards
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but triumph over it"
Jorge Edwards
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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Jorge Edwards
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"Courage is not roaring loud after the danger has passed"
Jorge Edwards
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Cowardice asks if it is safe. Expediency asks if it is politic. Vanity asks if it is popular. But conscience asks if it is right."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who perpetrates it."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A time comes when silence is betrayal."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The bravest thing we can do when we are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
Abraham Lincoln