I am quite possibly the world's bravest coward. I have never backed down from backing down from a fight.

I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.

You have no enemies, you say?
Alas, my friend, the boast is poor.
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

You’ve hit no traitor on the hip.
You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip.
You’ve never turned the wrong to right.
You’ve been a coward in the fight.

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion? Thus wisdom creates cowards. And thus you miss Opportunity while spending your life on the lookout for it.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

God hates a coward...

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.