It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. – Proverb
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
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. – Queens 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
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
Cowards can never be moral. – Mahatma Gandhi
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny ones faith in man and God, even ones own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith. – Mahatma Gandhi
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. – John Gay
The coward threatens when he is safe. – Johann von Goethe
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
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. – George A. Knight
