If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one’s outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed.
—Charles Lindbergh
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
—E.M. Forster
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
—George Jackson
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
—Mahatma Gandhi
I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
—George Bernard Shaw
All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.
—Emma Goldman
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
—Thomas Fuller
Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
—Mahatma Gandhi
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
—Albert Camus
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
—Mark Twain
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
—Native American Proverb
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward.
—William Shakespeare
Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
—William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
—William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
—William Shakespeare