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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.