cowardice

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.

Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.

A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'_ Dandelion

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

Cowards never dare to love.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!""Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?

A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old,"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;Be not too bold!" Yet better the excessThan the defect; better the more than less;Better like Hector in the field to die,Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

Don't go confusing stupidity with guts.

I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it.

But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

Turning back against your responsibilityas a father is the most spineless thing you can do.