There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.

Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to read more

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

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.

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.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.