Quotations and Poems

» “A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.”
– Ambrose Bierce

»  ”For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.”
– Christian Nevell Bovee

»  ”Faint heart never won fair lady.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

»  ”How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.”
– Jeremy Collier

»  ”To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
– Confucius

»  ”Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.”
– Queen’s Mother Elizabeth

»  ”Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.”
– Epictetus

»  ”Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

»  ”Cowards can never be moral.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

»  ”Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.”
– John Gay

»  ”The coward threatens when he is safe.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

»  ”Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”
– Ernest Hemingway

»  ”When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.”
– Eric Hoffer

»  ”It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.”
– Dolores Ibarruri

»  ”A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”
– Thomas Jefferson

»  ”I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.”
– Samuel Johnson

»  ”It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.”
– Junius

»  ”A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.”
– Marvin Kitman

»  ”Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.”
– George A. Knight

»  ”I’m a hero with coward’s legs.”
– Spike Milligan

»  ”That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

»  ”It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.”
– Irish Proverb

»  ”There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”
– Ayn Rand

»  ”All men would be cowards if they could.”
– Earl Rochester

»  ”The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

»  ”A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.”
– Quintus Curtius Rufus

»  ”When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.”
– George Sewell

»  ”Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.”
– William Shakespeare

»  ”Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.”
– William Shakespeare

»  ”Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.”
– George Bernard Shaw

»  ”My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!”
– Richard Brinsley Sheridan

»  ”A light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.”
– Philip Dormer Stanhope

»  ”It is better to be killed than frightened to death.”
– Robert S. Surtees

»  ”The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.”
– Mark Twain

»  ”There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.”
– Mark Twain

»  ”A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”The cowards never started — and the weak died along the way.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.”
– Voltaire

»  ”Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.”
– Bishop Westcott