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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
-Proverb
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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
-Ambrose Bierce
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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage wasted by misdirection is the most heart-breaking of all tragedies. If there is an eighth deadly sin, it ought to be stupidity, by which all virtues run out into dry sands. Yet...where does prudence end and cowardice begin? That's a very good damn question!
-Lois McMaster Bujold
The Spirit Ring
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Faint heart never won fair lady.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
-Jeremy Collier
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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
-Confucius
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
-Queen's Mother Elizabeth
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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
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
-Marshal Ferdinand Foch
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My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The Gospel of Nonviolence (essay)
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Cowards can never be moral.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
-Mahatma Gandhi, November 24, 1946
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
-John Gay
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The coward threatens when he is safe.
-Johann von Goethe
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
-Ernest Hemingway
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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
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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
-Dolores Ibarruri
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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
-Thomas Jefferson
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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
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It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
-Junius
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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-Marvin Kitman
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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
-George A. Knight
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You have no enemies, you say?
Alas, my friend, the boast is poor.
He who has mingled in the fray of duty
that the brave endure, must have made foes.
If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
You've hit no traitor on the hip.
You've dashed no cup from perjured lip.
You've never turned the wrong to right.
You've been a coward in the fight.
-Charles MacKay
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Books about Cowardice/Weakness
