Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

It needs courage to throw oneself forward, but it needs no less to hold oneself back.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

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.

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

I consider myself a fearless idiot.

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

Fearless doesn't mean careless. There is a thin line between fearless and careless. I think we need to play fearless.