Norman Reilly Raine Quotes

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Caution. Caution is nothing but cowardice!

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.

I always believe that when you're not courageous, you become cunning.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

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!

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

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

I wish I was more adventurous.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.