Courage Quotes

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

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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action in its presence."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Courage is continuing when continuation seems impossible."
Haroldo Conti
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"Courage whispers where fear shouts."
Haroldo Conti
"It is impossible to live in this world without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."
Gabriel García Márquez
"If you wait to be absolutely sure of every decision, you will die waiting."
Gabriel García Márquez
"A writer must be brave enough to reveal the world's secrets."
Gabriel García Márquez
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"Nostalgia is a form of cowardice."
Fernando Vallejo
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"To live authentically requires the courage to be an outsider."
Fernando Vallejo
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"Independence requires the willingness to be despised."
Fernando Vallejo
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"Passion without consequence is merely entertainment."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Real courage is continuing when you've already glimpsed the truth."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"El valor no es la ausencia de miedo sino la acción a pesar de él"
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"El coraje es actuar cuando tienes todas las razones para no hacerlo"
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"A writer must have the courage to tell what he sees, even if the world doesn't want to hear it."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"To witness injustice and say nothing is to become its accomplice."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The fear in a tyrant's eye reveals the power of truth."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The act of bearing witness is itself an act of resistance."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"To write truthfully is to risk everything; to remain silent is to lose everything."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The greatest act of defiance is to continue speaking when silenced."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The voice of the voiceless is found in the voices of the brave."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The future will judge us not by what we said, but by what we did."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"To speak the truth is to walk a dangerous path, but it is the only path worth walking."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The greatest courage is the willingness to face one's own complicity in the world's suffering."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Authenticity requires the courage to be misunderstood and rejected."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Courage is the ability to act despite the certainty of suffering."
Haroldo Conti
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"Authenticity requires the courage to be misunderstood."
Haroldo Conti
"The greatest courage is to face your own fears"
Leopoldo Lugones
"Courage is the absence of fear, it is action despite it"
Leopoldo Lugones
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"In the presence of authentic suffering, cynicism is merely cowardice dressed in intellectual clothing."
Alcides Arguedas
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"The voice of dissent is the voice of conscience; silence in the face of injustice is complicity."
Alcides Arguedas