Best 436 quotes in «coward quotes» category

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.

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.

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

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

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 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.

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.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

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

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

God will not make himself manifest to 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.

Hard words are for fools and 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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

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 feel like we are so much more comfortable sweeping things under the rug and putting on a brave face, and to me, sweeping under the rug is a coward move, not a brave move at all. I want to get out there and have a conversation.

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

I found from working on the film that I am a bigot, at times. And that I am also a coward, at times.

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

If you're a generous person, when you get money and fame, you're going to be more generous. If you're a sharer, you're going to be more sharing. If you're a coward, you're just going to be a bigger coward. That's all money and fame does.

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.