A coward never loses. A coward never wins. A coward never tries. A coward earns the respect of nobody. A coward accomplishes nothing.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.Used to be that Americans lived by such words.
— Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”, Act II Scene 2