Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Umberto Eco

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Moliere

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Jean Baudrillard

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Graham Greene

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Pericles

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
Anna Akhmatova

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis D. Brandeis

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
Linda McCartney

War is fear cloaked in courage.
William Westmoreland

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
Muammar al-Gaddafi

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Despair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas Fuller

The more wit the less courage.
Thomas Fuller

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Lord Chesterfield