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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.


E. M. Forster

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PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.
LEV GROSSMAN Be strong when you are weak, brave when you are scared and humble when you are victorious.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their hear...
PREITY ZINTA When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
DR. GEORGE SEWELL The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
ARISTOTLE A brave man dies once, a coward a thousand times.
AFRICAN PROVERB A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unles...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you...
MEG CABOT Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under t...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
EURIPIDES An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
CHIEF JOSEPH He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him...
STEPHEN KING The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.
FRANCINE RIVERS That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POE You must be brave..."
"Not brave - just different.
STEPHENIE MEYER The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
MEREDITH WILLSON What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you ...
SHARON CREECH When you are scared, but you do it anyway, that's brave.
NEIL GAIMAN In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the c...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.
CLIVE BARKER You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKS Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
NEIL GAIMAN You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a ...
FELICITY JONES Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.
J.K. ROWLING They told me it's a very dangerous subject, but when you fall in love something, you must be brave, ...
ROBERTO BENIGNI It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute some...
B.J. NOVAK Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them an...
MANDY HALE When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
MAHATMA GANDHI A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
MAHATMA GHANDI A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
MAHATMA GANDHI You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Don't you see? You can't be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they d...
TERI HALL Because,” she said, “when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
NEIL GAIMAN Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
NEIL GAIMAN If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
DANA HUSSEIN In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
KIRK DOUGLAS I would tell young journalists to be brave and go against the tide. When everyone else is relying on...
JUDY POLUMBAUM When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave....
ANTHONY DOERR Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you ...
ROBERT JORDAN How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
E.M. FORSTER I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an ...
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LUPYTHA HERMIN Because,” she said, “when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.” The
NEIL GAIMAN My daddy always said being brave wasn’t not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you w...
SUSAN CRANDALL Oh, yeah, I like a high neck. And I like naked backs. It seems very sexy. Red carpets are about bein...
EVA GREEN I would ask, 'Have you read '1984'? Have you read 'Brave New World'? If so, I...
CARRIE VAUGHN Let me help you be brave.
LEISA RAYVEN Being brave isn't about having no fear. Being brave isn't even about conquering your fear. To truly ...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER If you are strong when weakness tries to pounce, brave when you are scared and humble when you are v...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back agai...
NEIL GAIMAN Fighting can be like champagne. It can go to the head of a coward as quickly as of a hero. Anyone ha...
JOSé N. HARRIS If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON In my everyday life I'm a little bit nervous and not particularly brave. I feel like if I can be...
EMILY BROWNING Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, bad...
NEIL GAIMAN I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whe...
TOM PETERS Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
LAURENCE STERNE You have to be brave before you can be good.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of w...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.
MARY E. DEMUTH I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.
NEIL GAIMAN You are one brave woman," he whispers, "I am in awe of you.
E.L. JAMES If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begg...
JACK HANDY You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.
DON DELILLO There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?'...
CARL HIAASEN Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...
JOHN CONNOLLY The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deser...
ANDREW JACKSON You're a brave, brave girl, Tula" Gaby told her.
"I know", said the little girl. "I got it from...
JAMES PATTERSON I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I ...
LEO ROSTEN But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've a...
GINNIFER GOODWIN Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.
HARVEY PENICK Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.
LANA DEL REY Be Brave enough if you enter in a Battle-Field.
ANONYMOUS Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave.
A. E. HOUSMAN You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to ...
ANN LECKIE The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
CORRA MAY HARRIS The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
CORRA HARRIS The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly
CORRA HARRIS Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.
PHILIP R. BREEZE I said to myself, 'Malala, be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.
TERRY PRATCHETT Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose mi...
MARK TWAIN And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Cor...
NEIL GAIMAN Brave deeds are wasted when hidden
BLAISE PASCAL I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy th...
DAVID MITCHELL When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one the...
ROBBIE COLTRANE It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Al...
TERRY PRATCHETT Retreat is brave when you steal a great prize from your enemy's hands.
DAVID BOWLES Be brave, believe you can and then do it.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Courage doesn’t defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in th...
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E. M. CIORAN Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal the...
E. M. CIORAN The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for on...
E. M. CIORAN Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encount...
E. M. CIORAN Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal ther...
E. M. CIORAN Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it...
E. M. BOUNDS Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of pr...
E. M. BOUNDS We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, th...
E. M. BOUNDS Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
E. M. CIORAN There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
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