Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Caution. Caution is nothing but cowardice!

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

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.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

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

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

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

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

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

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

Being prudent does not mean being fearful.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.

Why should he who is scared be careful?

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.