A Quote by Plutarch

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

Plutarch

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Brave Brave Man Coward Excuse God Hope Man

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Plutarch
Greek - Philosopher
46 - 120

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

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

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

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

Michel de Montaigne

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 sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

Aleister Crowley

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Francis Bacon

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

Chief Joseph

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

Joseph Stalin

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.