Being a coward does not necessarily mean you are not heroic by nature. It is a choice by convenience for many. Here is a look at some great quotes about being coward.
“A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him.”
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”
“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.”
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”
“Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.”
“But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”
“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”
“Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.”
“Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.”
“Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.”
“For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.”
“Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.”
“He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.”
“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
“I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.”
“I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.”
“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
“I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.”
“I’d like to see one person – just one – who would own up to having been a coward.”
“If I’m scared and I’m a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?”
“I’m a complete coward in real life.”
“I’m not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That’s a coward. That’s not me.”
“I’m such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don’t want to make a picture.”
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
“It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.”
“It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.”
“It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.”
“It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”
“It’s when you run away that you’re most liable to stumble.”
“Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy.”
“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
“Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.”
“Some people are cowards… I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. ”
“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”
“The coward only threatens when he is safe.”
“The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.”
“The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.”
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.”
There are certain signs and indicators to determine if you are a coward or not.
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