Best 436 quotes in «coward quotes» category

The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's faithfulness to his prejudices. If he were a lover of truth, he would be willing at any moment to surrender his belief for a higher, better, and truer faith.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.

The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man.

The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren’t the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

There never was found a man who had courage to acknowledge himself a coward.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

There’s no need in both of us dying tonight. (Kiara) I took an oath to save every life I could. I’m not about to back out on it now. I might be a lot of things, but a coward has never been one of them. (Syn)

The Spirit's fullness is not the reward of our faithfulness, but God's gift for our defeat. He was not given to the disciples in Acts 28 as the culmination and reward of their wonderful service, but in Acts 2 when they had proved themselves cowards, meeting behind closed doors.

The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!

These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

The spooks are all cowards. Sunlight is the solution to these things.

The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

This world is not for cowards.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Those who live in the past are cowards and losers.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards