Lewis Carroll Quotes

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

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

The Italian people are cowards.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.

To get scared is something not in my personality.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

I'm not brave. Far from it.

One thing I do dislike, are cowards.

Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

The vertue of a coward is suspition.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

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

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.