Best 436 quotes in «coward quotes» category

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

Do not run away, it is cowardice.

Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.

Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!

Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another time, shall walk among our urns, shall hear no more. The good - that is what we must pursue, whatever the price, preferring the title of a dead hero to that of a living coward.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.

God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and commanded us to be men.

God will not make himself manifest to cowards

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.

I am no coward; but I am so strong, so hard to die.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!" "Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.