A Quote by Meredith Willson

The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

Meredith Willson

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Meredith Willson
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May 18, 1902 - June 15, 1984

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Ernest Hemingway

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

Leo Rosten

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

William Shakespeare

A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

Meredith Willson

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

Julius Caesar

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Ernest Hemingway

A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.

Hani

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.

Chinua Achebe

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

Tupac Shakur

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

Charles Bukowski

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Ernest Hemingway

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

Chief Joseph

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

Plutarch

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Joseph Stalin

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

Alistair Maclean

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