Paul Neilan Quotes

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

To defend oneself by alliance is proof of cowardice.

A brave nation fights because it must; a cowardly nation fights because it can.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

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.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.