The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
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.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.