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• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Hero, Good Luck, Suspense

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Courage, Thoughtful, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2136, Delphi Classics

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• Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

  Ellis Peters

  Hero, Expectations, Common

  Ellis Peters (2014). “Dead Man's Ransom”, p.8, Head of Zeus

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• When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

  Russell Baker

  Clever, Two, Car

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• I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

  Edith Piaf

  Persons, Just One

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• I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

  Carl Reiner

  Fighting, Charming

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sports, Hero, Firefighter

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• Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cat, Waiting

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 35

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• No coward soul is mine.

  Emily Bronte

  Adventure, Soul, Survival

  "Last Lines" l. 1 (1846)

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• Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

  William Shakespeare

  Choices, Affection, Pale

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

  E. M. Forster

  Hurt, Fear, People

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• No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.

  Emily Bronte

  Soul, Storm, World

  "Last Lines" l. 1 (1846)

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• A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hero, Wicked, Innocent

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.11, Nayika Publishing

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• Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

  Joaquin Miller

  Lying, Men, Lying Men

  Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.107

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• Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

  Laurence Sterne

  Forgiveness, Brave, Forgiving

  "Sermons" by Laurence Sterne, vol. I, No. 12, 1760.

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• Only cowards insult dying majesty.

  Aesop

  Dying, Majesty, Insult

  Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

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• Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Strong, Fear, People

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• I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

  Tupac Shakur

  Death, Men, Rapper

  Song: Only God Can Judge Me Now, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards

  Eric Holder

  Believe, Melting, Way

  Speech at the DOJ African-American History Month Program, delivered 18 February 2009

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• Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

  Thomas Fuller

  Confidence, Military, Ironic

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• When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fashion, Strong, Numbers

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, White, Beard

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1243, Oxford University Press

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

  Sallust

  Running, Bravery, Risk

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• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3734, Delphi Classics

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