Courage Quote by John Donne

Despair gives courage to a coward.

— Thomas Fuller

Despair swallows up cowardice.

— William Hazlitt

I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.

— John Buchan

“Death, would that you scorned to take the coward's life, And came only to valour!”

— Lucan

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

— Hadewijch

Thou has done a deed whereat valour will weep.

— William Shakespeare

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

— Albert Camus

You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Your weak side, my diabolic friend, is that you have always been a gull: you take Man at his own valuation. Nothing would flatter…

— George Bernard Shaw

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

— Epictetus

The vertue of a coward is suspition.

— George Herbert

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

— Theodor Adorno