Best 436 quotes in «coward quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a 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 don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

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 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.

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.

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

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

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

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

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 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 want to call a man to account, don't do it when he is weak; call him to account when he is strong! Cowards choose the first way and the valiant choose the second way.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.

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.

I'm a complete coward in real life.

I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.

I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.