A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Cowards can never be moral.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
The coward threatens when he is safe.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
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.
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
— Junius
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
I'm a hero with coward's legs.
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
All men would be cowards if they could.
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
— Voltaire
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.