Shame on you! Think what this child has done! You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less.

The more comfort the less courage there is.

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

I have to say it: I didn't have the courage.

"The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy."

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.

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

Ashamed to decline the challenge, yet fearing to accept it.

... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

Oh man, at that end not much has been left of your excellence, nothing of all that you have been boasting about through life - only sex, fear, self-admiration and a few other things you are usually ashamed of.

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.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Do not feel ashamed if the amount of charity is small because to refuse the needy is an act of greater shame.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest