Quotes About Coward And Courage

#1. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. I

Cormac McCarthy

#2. Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#3. Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Mark Twain

#4. Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

Novala Takemoto

#5. To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Bill Maher

#6. An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

Herman Melville

#7. A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#8. No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

Aesop

#9. I will tell you something my father once told me. The difference between a brave man and a coward is very simple. It is a problem of love. A coward loves only himself ... The brave man loves other men first and himself last. (From Meyer's The Son)

Phillipp Meyer

#10. A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

Thomas S. Monson

#11. A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Edmund Burke

#12. A coward dies every day,
the courageous dies only once.

Anonymous

#13. The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows the coward is waiting to strike.

David A. Cleinman

#14. Men's courage is reflected when he snaps at a women.

Pushpa Rana

#15. Don't be a coward, driving away anyone who cares enough to see you for yerself. It's easy to live yer life alone, son. It takes courage to live with another. But in the end, yer life can be so much richer for it

Sabrina Jeffries

#16. Quiet courage is better than loud cowardice.
Quiet victory is better than loud defeat.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done - that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

Piers Anthony

#18. The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things ... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man.

Thucydides

#19. You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is ... God help him.

Khaled Hosseini

#20. It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#21. Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive.

Aminatta Forna

#22. So the coward will dare on the gallant horse
What he never would dare alone,
Because he exults in a borrowed force,
And a hardihood not his own.

Adam Lindsay Gordon

#23. Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

David Seabury

#24. It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#25. A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

#26. When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

Richard Attenborough

#27. That all men would be cowards if they dare,
Some men we know have courage to declare.

George Crabbe

#28. A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Mickey Mantle

#29. It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back ... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

Pope Francis

#30. Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart

L. Frank Baum

#31. He's got courage," Alex said.
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and--

Tamora Pierce

#32. All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

Johnny Depp

#33. Courage is the goal of cowards.

Alan Watts

#34. They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.

Simon R. Green

#35. This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.

Conan O'Brien

#36. Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Euripides

#37. There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

David Gemmell

#38. Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#39. Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

Cormac McCarthy

#40. It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.

John Connolly

#41. Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#42. The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

Margaret Mitchell

#43. This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

Swami Vivekananda

#44. Despair gives courage to a coward.

Thomas Fuller

#45. While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

Al Gore

#46. Aye, well," Murray replied, "but think. Say a man is a coward and hasna died well. Purgatory gives him a chance to prove his courage after all, no? And once he is proved a proper man, then the bridge is open to him, and he can pass through the clouds of terrible things unhindered to paradise.

Diana Gabaldon

#47. Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.

Mas Oyama

#48. We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

#49. The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Aristotle.

#50. Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword

Oscar Wilde

#51. Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Socrates

#52. If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

Jane Porter

#53. Now shame on the coward soul, which wants the courage either to be a firm friend, or an open enemy.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#54. I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Cormac McCarthy

#55. One courageous man who leaves the coward crowds behind himself and walks forward has the potential of changing the whole world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#56. Where courage and judgement are equally required a clever coward is better than a stupid hero.

Michael Collins

#57. The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Pat Conroy

#58. Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

Harlan Ellison

#59. Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch
as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

Ambrose Bierce

#60. Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth
the cowards!

Joaquin Miller

#61. 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. Aye,

Herman Melville

#62. Sir, I am not a brave man ... The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.

George S. Patton

#63. Courage can come fro many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday's coward can become tomorrow's hero in an instant if the time is right.

Joe Abercrombie

#64. Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion? Thus wisdom creates cowards. And thus you miss Opportunity while spending your life on the lookout for it.

Umberto Eco

#65. The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too!

Israelmore Ayivor

#66. There never was found a man who had courage to acknowledge himself a coward.

Joseph R. Bartlett

#67. Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.

Criss Jami

#68. Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

Noel Coward

#69. Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith