- A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. ~ Author Unknown
- A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. ~ Marvin Kitman
- A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger. ~ Euripides
- A coward’s fear can make a coward valiant. ~ Thomas Fuller
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ~ Jean Paul Richter
- Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning. ~ George Eliot
- As cowardly as a coward is, it is not safe to call a coward a coward. ~ Author Unknown
- Being careful is not being a coward. ~ Haitian Proverb
- Between two cowards, the first to detect the other has the advantage. ~ Italian Proverb
- Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. ~ Reginald W. Kaufman
- Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ~ Horace Smith
- Cowardly men, healthy bones. ~ Creole Proverb
- Despair gives courage to a coward. ~ Thomas Fuller
- Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave. ~ Mark Twain
- I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it. ~ Ralph Connor
- If you spit in the face of a coward he’ll tell you that it’s raining. ~ Lebanese Proverb
- It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. ~ Irish Proverb
- It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. ~ Dolores Ibarruri
- It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. ~ Junius
- None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. ~ Ferdinand Foch
- One coward makes ten. ~ German Proverb
- One who does what he says is not a coward. ~ African Proverb
- That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- The coward despairs. ~ Euripides
- The coward threatens when he is safe. ~ Goethe
- To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs. ~ Euripides
- When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. ~ B.C. Forbes
- You cannot be a hero without being a coward. ~ George Bernard Shaw
