“What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!”
Percy had no intention of doing that.”

“It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.”

Knut Hamsun book Hunger

“Ah, you coward! Look at you, running."

"Actually, it's called improvising.”

Jonathan Stroud book Heroes of the Valley

“Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

“You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!”

Homér Iliad

“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

“Bullies are cowards and if you stand up to them they back away.”

Robert P. George (1955) American legal scholar

“I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.”

Alberto Salazar (1958) American track coach and long-distance runner born in Cuba

“You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

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

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms