A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Between Cowardice Lies Rashness True Valor

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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

Miguel de Cervantes

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Miguel de Cervantes

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

Miguel de Cervantes

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Duke of Wellington

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

J. K. Rowling

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

Thomas Hobbes

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

William Hazlitt

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

Jane Porter

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

W. S. Gilbert

Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.

Jeanette Winterson

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.