Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario: you are alone in a closet of your home. There`s a bright red...

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

She loved sinking into her bed on evenings like this, but apparently she shouldn’t, because it worried her aunts, who thought she ought to be out dancing. It worried her a little bit, too, because...

Idiot. Which road do you take when you’re running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you’re the one looking for an excuse to back out.

Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as they were walking along the main street, it suddenly began to rain and,...

A coward,’ he declared with dignity, when he’d stopped coughing and had got his breath back, ‘dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the...

I am quite possibly the world’s bravest coward. I have never backed down from backing down from a fight.

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out...

People run away from the love game because they know they won’t win the race.

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and...

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

I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

A real man—real in all the ways that we recognize as real—finds himself suddenly abstracted from the world and deposited in a physical situation which could not possibly exist: sounds have aroma, smells have color...

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

Explanations are for cowards.

Tom’s cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.””No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission.””We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions; they never walk alone!

She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before her?Does she set fire and smoke him out, forcing him to fight, or does she let...

When you don’t fight your adversary, you become the coward in the sight of animalistic breeds, but they forget that your real strength stays in the whisper of your voice.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

The last time that I consciously wrote anything to ‘save the honor of the Left’, as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it...

Life is too short to cower.

,Cómo podría ser cobarde quien enfrenta sus miedos con tal de alcanzar sus añoranzas?

{From Luther Burbank’s funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death threats. He tried to amiably answer them all, leading to his death}It is impossible to...

I was a coward. I went to the war.

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you...

Amaranta, however, whose hardness of heart frightened her, whose concentrated bitterness made her bitter, suddenly became clear to her in the final analysis as the most tender woman who had ever existed, and she understood...

Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.

Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship.

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!””Well, I am,” said Sal. “So can we go… please?

A man don’t need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie...

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

I resolutely refuse to believe that the state of Edward’s health had anything to do with this, and I don’t say this only because I was once later accused of attacking him ‘on his deathbed.’...

The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked...

Sometimes it takes bravery in order to be a coward.

Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart

They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak...

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.