Terry Pratchett Quotes

I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.

Cowardice is no virtue.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

Being brave is not as easy as it looks.

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself

I was a coward. I went to the war.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . I’m not a brave person— I’m more of a fearless idiot.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

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