Best 436 quotes in «coward quotes» category

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Only cowards torture women.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

Reflection makes men cowards.

Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility.

Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman.

Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

Slander is the tool of cowards.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn't make myself go.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Riches make cowards of us.

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power, probably the stars manipulating our cellular magnets. We think we have all this agency, but do we? Do we really? Can you choose to be brave when you were born a coward? Can we be deprogrammed from the brainwashing that we grew up in? I think we can, but I think we need a lot of help.

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.

The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.

The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

The coward's weapon, poison.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.