I am nowhere near as brave as people believe me to be. As a writer, armed with words, I can do anything, but when I have to take my body out into the world, courage fails me.

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after it.

You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less.

What can I do when there is no courage in me, Father? Where does courage come from? Why did I not receive my share?

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

We have lost the courage to hope.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.