top of page
Exlpore more Coward quotes

"I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us."

"Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers."

"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."

"Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural."
Explore more quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson


"We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature."


"An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity."


"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."


"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may."


"The rain is falling all around,It falls on field and tree,It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ships at sea."


"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."


"Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which are representative, or as used to be said very clumsily, imitative; and those, like architecture, music, and the dance, which are self-sufficient, and merely presentative."
bottom of page