Cowardice Quotes

Suppose that any man who ever did anything worth while had been a coward! The world owes its progress to the men who have dared, and you must dare to speak the effective word that is in your heart to speakā€”for often it requires courage to utter a single sentence. But remember that men erect […]

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense.

A coward has no scar.

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

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

To keep silent when we should protest, makes cowards of men.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Ned would liken himself to Achilles of old. I hope he’ll admit of a single correction; In his heels lay Achilles’ danger we’re told, Whilst Ned in his heels finds his only protection.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying […]