Coventry Patmore Quotes

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

Caution. Caution is nothing but cowardice!

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Fear reveals baseborn souls!

Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all. ~Shuhei Hisagi

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!