It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served.
The coward's weapon, poison.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.
The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.
How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?
I say to Floyd Mayweather Jr. , don't be a coward and face me in the ring, mano a mano, and shut your big, pretty mouth so we can show the world who is the true king of the ring.
By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism
Cowards can't be faulted for being shy. They can't be held responsible for anything.
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.