Beware instinct--the lion will not touch the true prince…

“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”

— Graham Greene

The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it…

— Frantz Fanon

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice… Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without…

— Hesketh Pearson

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the…

— Billy Connolly

“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The biggest obstacles to our progress exist within our own lives in the form of cowardice and the tendency to give up. Breaking through…

— Senora Roy

“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny…

— C. JoyBell C

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

— Markus Zusak

Man alone mesures time. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running…

— Anonymous

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

— Anonymous

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

— Daphne du Maurier

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last…

— Ernest Hemingway

“People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten…

— Susan Hill

“Preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear…”

— Four from Divergent