Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

Heroism is the antidote to evil.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

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

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

Cowardice is no virtue.