Coward And Courage Quotes

• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3734, Delphi Classics

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Peace, Clever

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

  Bill Maher

  Courage, Stupidity, Coward

  "The Left Grapples With Charlie Hebdo" by Bill Scher, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Courage, Bravery, Ought

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• Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Courage, Peace

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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• Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

  Joseph Epstein

  Courage, Bravery, Nine

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• The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

  Gene Hackman

  Courage, Hero, Differences

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  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

  Mickey Mantle

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.90, U of Nebraska Press

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• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Courage, Time

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• Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

  Thomas Fuller

  Running, Fear, Bravery

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• A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

  Euripides

  Courage, Men, Choices

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Sex, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.59, BookBaby

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• Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Betrayal, Kissing

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

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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

  Courage, Imagination, Cowardice

  "A Farewell to Arms".

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

  Thomas Fuller

  Confidence, Military, Ironic

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• Each man kills the thing he loves.

  Anthony Burgess

  Broken Heart, Betrayal, Men

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

  Elephants, Dawn, Hot

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• Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Brave Person, Bravery

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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