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Charles Dickens1 quote
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. — Charles Dickens · 1860Dorothy Gale1 quote
My goodness, what a fuss you're making! Well naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are. Why, you're nothing but a great big coward! — Dorothy Gale · 1939Ella Wheeler Wilcox1 quote
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox · 1914Ernest Hemingway1 quote
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. — Ernest Hemingway · 1942Homer1 quote
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. — Homer · 700 BCJohn Stuart Mill1 quote
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for...is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free. — John Stuart Mill · 1862The Wizard of Oz1 quote
You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom. — The Wizard of Oz · 1939Tony Montana1 quote
You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be! You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy!" — Tony Montana · 1983William Shakespeare1 quote
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare · 1599