Quotes about cowardice

There is no valor in running for your life.

Once a man had turned his tail and run from battle he ceased to be a man.

The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin.

Only cowards kill the vanquished

There are many forms of cowardice, Chareos. One man can face a score of enemies with a sword, but not a sickness which paralyses him. Another can face death with a smile, yet fear the years of hardship and toil which are living. Are you a coward?

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism.

I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

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.

Honor in safety, survival under threat. Better a living coward than a dead hero.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Every one of my acts commits me as a man. Every one of my silences, every one of my cowardices reveals me as a man.

That was the coward’s route. Wishing for ignorance.