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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

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"All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts. I learned that if I roared very loudly every living thing was frightened and got out of my way. Whenever I've met a man I've been awfully scared; but I just roared at him, and he has always run away as fast as he could go. If the elephants and the tigers and the bears had ever tried to fight me, I should have run myself — I'm such a coward; but just as soon as they hear me roar they all try to get away from me, and of course I let them go."

 

L. Frank Baum

 

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

 

Calmly take what ill betideth;
Patience wins the crown at length:
Rich repayment him abideth
Who endures in quiet strength.
Brave the tamer of the lion;
Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise;
Bravest he who rules his passions,
Who his own impatience sways.

 

Johann Gottfried Herder

 

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

 

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

 

Edgar Allan Poe