William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

The sea hates a coward.

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

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

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

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

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.