Loss of Courage Quotes

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it; she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

The gladiators, for a long time past, Seem to have lost their appetite for dying.

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

Must one point out that from ancient times a decline in courage has been considered the first symptom of the end?

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.