Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. - G.K. Chesterton

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. - Horace Smith

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. - Douglas Malloch

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. - Albert Camus

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. - Joseph Epstein

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice. - Irisa Hail