Courage Quotes

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

36597 quotes

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"Courage is fear that has learned to speak"
Ungaretti
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the determination to act despite it."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"The courage to be ordinary is greater than the courage to be exceptional."
Eugenio Montale
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"A man's courage is measured not by his willingness to fight, but by his refusal to surrender to despair."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
G
"The greatest tragedy is not failure, but the never attempting at all."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"To live authentically is to live in constant defiance of convention."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Fear is merely the shadow cast by imagination upon the wall of reason."
Luis de Góngora
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to act despite it."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"True courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Elio Vittorini
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"Courage is standing up for what is right."
Elio Vittorini
E
"Truth requires courage; comfort requires silence."
Eugenio Montale
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the refusal to be consumed by it."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"The greatest tragedy is not failure, but the failure to attempt."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"The only true failure is not trying."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Federigo Tozzi
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"The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of it."
Elsa Morante
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."
Elsa Morante
E
"The greatest tragedy is the silence of good people in the face of injustice."
Elio Vittorini
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"Courage is feeling fear and choosing to act anyway with integrity."
Elio Vittorini
E
"The most subversive act is to live authentically in an inauthentic world."
Elio Vittorini
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"The greater the cruelty, the greater the intelligence required to combat it"
Primo Levi
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"Bearing witness is a moral imperative"
Primo Levi
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"Silence in the face of evil is complicity"
Primo Levi
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"The examined life requires courage"
Primo Levi
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"The act of bearing witness is sacred"
Primo Levi
P
"We must speak truth even when it is difficult"
Primo Levi
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"One must learn to suffer without complaint, to smile without joy."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"The greatest acts of courage are often invisible to the world."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
Cesare Pavese