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Turning back against your responsibility as a father is the most spineless thing you can do.

Warriors suffer for their dreams. Cowards pay for their fears.

Two things I ask of my God today. That my faith be hoisted high like a kite up in the sky and my fear be buried deeply like a carcass into the soil.

You feed your fears to grow muscles against you when you run away from what frightens you. Little do you know that it’s frightened when you face it boldly!

When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.

Who needs a castle? Surely not a courageous man! Who needs a guard? Surely not a brave man! Who needs a gun? Surely not a strong man! Cowards need castles, they need guards and guns, simply because they are weak and chicken hearted!

You can't be a man and a coward at the same time.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

A coward can die many times, but love can only die once.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

A coward never forgives.

Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising.

Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

A fortress is of no use to cowards.

All the learn'd are cowards by profession.

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creators power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say: You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.

And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

At the end of the day, capital is a coward. It's going to flee from wherever it perceives risk to be present in the marketplace.

A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.

Blame is the cowards way out.

Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

Bullies are always cowards.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.