Best 436 quotes in «coward quotes» category

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

I touch my scar to remind myself that I am not a coward. I am a Quinn.

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Let him go, Julian. His entire body isn’t worth one molecule of yours. (Grace) (To Paul) Where I come from, we butchered worthless cowards like you just for practice. (Julian)

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

May the eyes of cowards never sleep

Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.