Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

My greatest fear has always been that I would be afraid - afraid physically or mentally or morally and allow myself to be influenced by fear instead of by my honest convictions.

Cowardice is no virtue.

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Even the biggest heroes turn into cowards when they get tired.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

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

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.