Courage Quotes (1732 Quotes)
- Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.
(Walter M. Miller Jr, "A Canticle for Leibowitz")
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- He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred.
(William Faulkner, "Light in August")
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- They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world. A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.
(Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried")
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- But this lump does not absolve me, because I got it through heedlessness, not though courage. I run my tongue over my lip and what do I do? I write. But bad literature brings no redemption.
(Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum")
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- He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia")
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- Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia")
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- And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- Half of bravery is perspective.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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