Best 436 quotes in «coward quotes» category

Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.

In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'

I say to Floyd Mayweather Jr., don't be a coward and face me in the ring, mano a mano, and shut your big, pretty mouth so we can show the world who is the true king of the ring.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

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

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

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

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.

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

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.

It is the act of a coward to wish for 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 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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

May the eyes of cowards never sleep

Metaphors are the weapons of 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.