A Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.
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.
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.
The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win.
The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.
Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot.
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
Even the biggest heroes turn into cowards when they get tired.
Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
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.
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.
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