Courage Quotes

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

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"The writer's duty is to illuminate the shadows where truth hides."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
R
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
Rubén Darío
R
"Courage grows stronger the more we exercise it."
Rubén Darío
"The most courageous act is to be honest with yourself."
Gioconda Belli
"Courage is continuing when you're terrified."
Gioconda Belli
"Authenticity is the rarest form of courage."
Gioconda Belli
"Courage is feeling the fear and speaking anyway."
Gioconda Belli
N
"Revolution begins in the heart before it reaches the streets."
Nellie Campobello
N
"Sorrow is the teacher that joy can never replace."
Nellie Campobello
K
"To be truly free, you must accept that you are responsible for your choices."
Kathy Acker
K
"Freedom requires the courage to disappoint others and yourself."
Kathy Acker
K
"To survive means to become the author of your own narrative."
Kathy Acker
R
"The hardest thing is to accept that we are responsible for our own silence."
Rosario Castellanos
E
"We live in the margins of other people's narratives until we claim our own."
Elena Garro
E
"The greatest betrayal is not to others, but to our own potential."
Elena Garro
E
"Courage is not the absence of fear but movement despite it."
Elena Garro
E
"The world needs more people brave enough to be fully themselves."
Elena Garro
"To be a woman and a revolutionary at the same time means accepting the constant contradiction."
Gioconda Belli
"The silent voices of the oppressed demand to be heard."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Moral courage is rarer than physical bravery."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
A
"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
A
"I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington."
Abraham Lincoln
M
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Mariano Azuela
M
"Courage grows stronger each time we exercise it."
Mariano Azuela
R
"We must choose between comfort and conscience."
Rosario Castellanos
R
"To witness suffering is to be called to action."
Rosario Castellanos
R
"Fear is the birthplace of courage."
Rosario Castellanos
R
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to act despite it"
Rubén Darío
R
"Those who dare greatly often fail greatly, but never live mediocrely"
Rubén Darío
N
"In the face of tyranny, silence is complicity."
Nellie Campobello