A Quote by Henry Miller

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

Henry Miller

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Henry Miller
American - Novelist
December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

Henry Miller

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

Cus D'Amato

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

Tom Hanks

It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.

Don Hewitt

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

N.D. Wilson

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

Henry David Thoreau

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.

Thomas Guthrie

The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win.

Jean-Michel Charlier

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

Mirko Cro Cop

Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.

Garrison Wynn

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Ellis Peters

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Brooke Westcott

It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

Samuel Johnson

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

Aaron Hill

The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.

Benjamin Clementine

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