->''"Harry then did something that was both very brave and very stupid."''
-->--''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''

->''"Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer."''
-->--'''The Ancestor''', ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon''

-> ''"[[LeeroyJenkins Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.]]"''
-->-- '''Alexander Pope''' in his short writing ''An Essay On Criticism''

->''"If they are so eager to die, and will not heed the advice of superiors, then let them rush headlong into the jaws of the lion. We can only hope some of them get caught in its throat."''
-->-- '''Lord Solar Macharius''' on the [[Literature/SpaceWolf Space Wolves]], ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->''"All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."''
-->-- '''General George S. Patton'''

->''"Courage isn't just a matter of not being afraid. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway."''
-->-- '''The Third Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Planet of the Daleks''

->''"Foolish are those who fear nothing, yet claim to know everything."''
-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->''"A fool knows no fear. A hero shows no fear."''
-->-- '''[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=45208 Intrepid Hero]]''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

->''"He doesn't know when he's beat, this boy... he doesn't know when he's winning either... he doesn't have any sort of sensory apparatus at all..."''
-->-- ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', "UpperClassTwit of the Year"

->'''Black Knight''': ''"I'M INVINCIBLE!"''\\
'''King Arthur''': ''"You're a loony."''
-->-- ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''

->''Tsze-lu asked, "If you had the conduct of the armies of a great State, whom would you have to act with you?"\\
Creator/{{Confucius}} replied, "I would not have him to act with me who will unarmed attack a tiger, or cross a river without a boat, dying without any regret. My associate must be the man who proceeds to action full of thoughtfulness, who is fond of carefully laying out his plans, and then carries them into execution."''
-->-- ''The Analects''

->''"I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.''
-->-- '''Creator/HermanMelville''', ''Literature/MobyDick''

->'''Mei:''' Not knowing what fear is isn't bravery; that's just being an idiot.\\
'''Heidi:''' Like you.\\
'''Mei:''' Right! Like me! I'm an expert at doing stupid things which aren't actually that brave! I have life-long experience at it!
-->-- ''[[Fanfic/GameTheoryLyricalNanoha Power Games]]''

->'''Tyler''': Must be nice. Not being able to cry. I got to give that a whirl.\\
'''Kinsey''': No, you don't. I wish I'd never done it. Maybe if I could still remember what it's like to feel sad, I wouldn't have gone and fucked things up with my best friends. Jamal and Scot won't talk to each other anymore and Jackie told me she can't be friends with someone so... reckless with other people's trust. And she's right. What a mess I made, Tyler.
-->-- ''Comicbook/LockeAndKey: Keys to the Kingdom''

->''"Fearless? Brainless? Who can tell?"''
-->-- [[VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram Jebediah Kerman's]] Steam trading card text.

->''"I've seen cathars riding to battle without a hint of fear. Perhaps that is its own sort of madness."''
-->-- '''[[http://mythicspoiler.com/emn/cards/faithbearerpaladin.html Esler, Havengul mercenary]]''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

->''"You've been making a name for yourself: and that name is 'Dangerous Idiot'."''
-->-- '''Lester Crest''', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''

->''"Humans who talk to dragons without fear are either looking to attack me, or they have a few screws loose in their head. In this case... it was the latter."''
-->-- '''Tohru''' describing [[SmallRoleBigImpact the Bandit]], ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''

->''"Today will be your first jump. Don't lie to yourself that you don't fear. You will fear. Actually, you will be terrified for your lives. And that is a good thing, because fear protects you. Courage is not a lack of fear. [[CowardlyLion Courage is the resolve to act despite your being terrified for your lives.]] Only psychopaths or fools don't fear. They are the ones who get maimed."''
-->-- '''Anonymous skydiving instructor'''

->I scramble upright and break into a low, fearful trot, searching for friends, even for familiar enemies, anyone I have ever met apart from the [[GlorySeeker Magnificent]] [[GeneralFailure Carsville]], who brushes past me and is now charging into the fog with a kitchen knife strapped to the end of an assault rifle as a bayonet. He seems oblivious to the fact that it will come off the first time he tries to use it and slip down the barrel without doing much harm, and that the tape will impede the action of the gun and cause it to explode in his stupid, handsome face. [[BrainlessBeauty But of course he's oblivious]]. These things don't happen to screen idols.
-->-- ''Literature/TheGoneAwayWorld''

->'''Nate:''' ''[to a horde of zombies]'' Come and get me, you ugly freaks! That's it! Follow me, you big dummies!\\
'''General Grant:''' That gent is either the bravest man I have ever had in my ranks or the dumbest.
-->-- ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''

->''There's a fine line between courage and recklessness. As brave as you are, that does '''not''' make you immortal.''
-->-- '''Princess Zelda''', to [[TheHero Link]], ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''

->''"The only thing to fear is fearlessness."''
-->-- '''Music/{{REM}}''', "Hyena"

->[''about the Snob''] Mate of yours, then? Sounds like an officer I had [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in the desert]], actually. Bloke by the name of Carstairs. He was a ''brave'' man, yeah, but he was [[UpperClassTwit a snobby little shit that reckoned you weren't worth a sod unless you were one of the officer class]]. One of the ''chaps.'' Anyway, one day, not long after the Alamein scrap, me and the platoon are having a look around this Arab village - well, if the truth be told, we were looting it - when all of a sudden, this [[TankGoodness bloody great Jerry panzer truck]] comes over the hill. "Come on you men," shouts Carstairs, and he runs at the damn thing! Can you believe it? So there he is with his revolver and bugger-all else, and he turns around to wave us on - and he suddenly realizes he's alone! [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere We'd all frigging legged it]], hadn't we? Worth sod-all we may have been, but we weren't thick. Next thing he knows, [[CurbStompBattle he's got ten pounds of explosives up his arse]], and his bollocks are halfway to Cairo. [[NotEnoughToBury They sent him home in a matchbox, if I remember rightly]].
-->--'''Matt,''' ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}: Friends In High Places''

->'''Gardenia''': If you're not careful, you could even lose your life! What you're full of isn't courage. It's stupidity.\\
'''Hareta''': I'm fine with being stupid!
-->--''Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure''

->Whatever [[GeniusDitz Zaphod's]] qualities of mind might include -– [[SmallNameBigEgo dash, bravado, conceit]] -– he was mechanically inept and could easily blow the ship up with an extravagant gesture. Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason why he had had such [[PuppetKing a wild and successful life]] was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.
-->--''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1''

->'''Simba:''' I was just trying to be brave, like you.\\
'''Mufasa:''' I'm only brave when I ''have'' to be. Simba, being brave doesn't mean you go ''looking'' for trouble.\\
'''Simba:''' But you're not scared of anything.\\
'''Mufasa:''' I was today.\\
'''Simba:''' You ''were?''\\
'''Mufasa:''' Yes... [[OutlivingOnesOffspring I thought I might lose you.]]
-->--''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''

->'''Arcee:''' I was afraid you'd be trapped outside the city.\\
'''Hot Rod:''' Hey, I wasn't worried for a microsecond.\\
'''Arcee:''' Then you probably didn't understand the situation.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie''

->''"I can't decide if that was brave or stupid. Wait, no... that was pretty stupid."''
-->--'''Sasha,''' ''WebComic/{{Battlepug}}''

->''"Sensei told me... being brave isn't not being scared. It's not letting being scared stop you. [[EmotionlessGirl I'm not scared]]... so I'm not really brave, right?"''
-->--'''Kaai Yuki''', ''[[Fanfic/TheReapingOfHatsuneMiku The Return of Hatsune Miku]]''

->''"Bold!...and '''stupid'''!"''
-->-- '''[[TheDreaded Adam Smasher]]''', ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''

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