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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

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.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

Cowardice is no virtue.

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.

Cowards cut and run, Marines never do.

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

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

Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Coward is the most misused word in our society.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Cowards can't be faulted for being shy. They can't be held responsible for anything.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.

Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet

Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores!

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Do not run away, it is cowardice.

Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.

Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!

Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another time, shall walk among our urns, shall hear no more. The good - that is what we must pursue, whatever the price, preferring the title of a dead hero to that of a living coward.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.