It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive… — Homer Copy Share Image
As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you,… — Homer Copy Share Image
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind. — Forrest Carter Copy Share Image
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. — Junius Copy Share Image
Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
