No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out. . . what I can endure. . . if I measure up. Running allows that.
Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
The coward is an object to be pitied.
It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.
Everybody has questioned my heart, questioned my training ethics, this and that, but I never did something as cowardly as to take any sports-enhancement drug. . . That's one thing no one can ever say about me, you know? That I was a coward and took sports-enhancement drugs, because I was afraid I was going to get my a** kicked in front of millions of people. So anybody out there who said I never had no heart, at least I wasn't a coward.
There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
I was a coward on instinct.
Hard words are for fools and cowards.
No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!
If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?
These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.
He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.
Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.