Fear has its use, but cowardice has none.
Mahatma GandhiYou are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
Herman HesseCowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareDespair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas FullerYou cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard ShawCourage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
PlutarchFreedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. BushHumor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert FrostHeroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage, the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques RousseauCowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius CaesarEven cowards can endure hardship, only the brave can endure suspense.
Mignon McLaughlinThe world has no room for cowards.
Robert Louis StevensonA conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert HubbardReflection makes men cowards.
William HazlittI know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Che GuevaraCowardic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayWoman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Jean PaulWhen the blandishments of life are gone, the coward creeps to death - the brave lives on.
Marcus AureliusThe brave man inattentive to his duty is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew JacksonTo know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
ConfuciusCoward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose BierceAn apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman however wrong he might be.
Steve MartinThere is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn RandHow is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything, save in opposing Thee?
Saint Teresa of AvilaCourage enlarges cowardice, diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
OvidTo sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
Abraham LincolnA timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean PaulIt is vain for the coward to flee, death follows close behind, it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
VoltaireThe coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheStupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich NietzscheNone but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand RussellWhen you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them, either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo MachiavelliTo see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
ConfuciusThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan PoeWar is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas CarlyleHe who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert CamusSuicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always, for cowardice sometimes prevents it, since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe human race is a race of cowards, and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
Mark TwainThere are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark TwainThe coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture aught below, is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand RussellObstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards, but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you, but if you look them squarely in the eye they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett MardenTo run away from trouble is a form of cowardice, and while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
AristotleWhen cowardice is made respectable its followers are without number, both from among the weak and the strong, it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric HofferThey tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Aristotle