Top 100 A Coward Quotes
#1. Be scared.You can't help that. But don't be afraid, Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you if you don't corner it or it don't smell that you are afraid. A bear or a deer has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.
William Faulkner
#3. No, Bailey, you're not a coward, but you're constantly worried that you are. You're a champion
worrier. And a woman, I think, who gives herself very little credit for her strengths, and has very little
tolerance for her weaknesses. Self-judgmental.
Nora Roberts
#4. A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward.
A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.
Betty Smith
#5. Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
Emmanuel Jal
#6. A coward dies a thousand deaths ... a soldier dies but once.
J.M. Darhower
#7. Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.
Charles Duhigg
#8. 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.
Stefan Zweig
#9. That's the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you're left with nothing but a coward whose only skill is how to blindly pull a trigger.
Jennifer Wilson
#10. It's time to take a deep breath and sink into the love and goodness that scares the ever-living hell out of me. I have to make my life count for something, or I'll be treading through this pain like a coward until I drop.
Steph Campbell
#11. I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Lord Chesterfield
#13. She looked at the door, and wondered if they meant it. Could she leave now? "We've no cowards among us," the man said. "Good." Teia wanted to shout, Wait! I think I might be a coward! Can I think on it a bit longer?
Brent Weeks
#14. 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.
Shepard Smith
#15. Count Drake had told him that life was precious, that suicide was a coward's way out, a sin against the God by flinging his gift back in his holy face.
Brent Weeks
#16. Behold the rich farm boy Malachy Burns
Who plays his pipe among the churns.
He's a coward, he's benighted,
He makes everyone feel slighted,
And all things but music he spurns.
Julia Glass
#17. And a respectable man must be a coward and a slave not only at the present time, owing to some accidental circumstances, but generally in all periods of time. That's a law of nature for all respectable people on earth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#18. I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
Ouida
#19. Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#20. A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world
Toni Morrison
#21. The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life.
Joseph Skinner
#22. It is bad to love life if one loves it like a coward.
Jean Guehenno
#23. Peace without Justice is a low estate,- A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,- We'll pay the price of war to make it real.
Henry Van Dyke
#24. Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.
Murong Xuecun
#25. But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome,
David Ross
#26. Sometimes one act of bravery is better than a life lived as a coward.
-Mukta
Amita Trasi
#27. If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.
Rajneesh
#28. He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.
Walter Hill
#29. You see, the problem with being a bully is that on the flipside of that particular coin, you'll find the imprint of a coward.
Jeffrey Archer
#30. You're strong Nakahira-san. Someone who hits first does so because he's afraid of being hit. I'm a weakling and a coward, so I strike first. And when I strike, I kill.
Yun Kouga
#31. One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one's fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?
Donald Kingsbury
#32. 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.
Klaus Kinski
#33. A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'
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Dandelion
Andrzej Sapkowski
#34. They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.
Simon R. Green
#35. Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.
Dominick Cruz
#36. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
Rabindranath Tagore
#37. Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions; they never walk alone!
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
Andrew Taylor Still
#39. Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.
Ray Bradbury
#40. One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers.
Werner Herzog
#41. A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson
#42. Welcome to Dauntless! Where you either face your fears and try not to die in the process or you leave a coward
Veronica Roth
#43. Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.
O.R. Melling
#44. Revenge is the sweetest way to say you are a coward to face your enemies without hurting them
When you find revenge in your heart do this for yourself
'Pray and let go of the anger within
Sonny Cele
#45. The fanatic emphasis on 'Plan B' that professionals talk about is not a coward's fall-back system. It serves a purpose, a purpose that a strategist has envisioned and planned before the need for an alternate solution surfaces.
Andy Paula
#46. You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people,
Anonymous
#47. Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.
Terry Pratchett
#48. 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.
Cassandra Clare
#49. He wondered what a coward did in his position and if it was the same thing he was doing now.
Claire Zorn
#50. Basically, it comes down do this: You can live life as a cripple or a coward. What happens now is up to you.
Joe Hill
#52. Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#53. President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Kevin Costner
#54. Do you think I'll let it go, that I'll hide from it because you, who's anything but a coward, is afraid of what ifs?
Nora Roberts
#55. You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.
Deepak Chopra
#57. I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
Stephen Fry
#58. It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Dolores Ibarruri
#59. Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
James Baldwin
#61. It is the act of a coward to wish for death.
Ovid
#63. None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch
#64. There's no honor in that. Only a coward would kill her that way; I want everything she has. I want her to want to fight with every breath of her body. Mechelle Tortured Soul
Kyra Gates
#65. The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.
George MacDonald
#66. I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.
Howard Hawks
#67. I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.
Usher
#68. If you live in Milton, you must learn to have a brave heart, Miss Hale.'
'I would do my best,' said Margaret rather pale. 'I do not know
whether I am brave or not till I am tried; but I am afraid I
should be a coward.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#70. In his mind he vaguely pondered whether he should strike that long-legged Englishman in the face and call him a coward, or whether such conduct in a lady's presence might be deemed ungentlemanly, when Marguerite happily interposed.
Emmuska Orczy
#71. Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.
Friedrich Schiller
#72. A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
Stephen King
#74. He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.
Terry Pratchett
#75. You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
Anthony Marra
#76. He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.
Daniel Defoe
#77. A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent
John Calvin
#78. A thousand times a coward and not once a dead man
Suad Amiry
#79. I hate it when people repeat the last thing that's been said to them because they're too afraid to ask what the other person meant by it. "You want to remember this moment," I said finally, because when it comes right down to it, I'm a coward.
Dale Peck
#80. If you want a definition of what a coward is, it's needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.
Andrea Dworkin
#81. I will tell you something my father once told me. The difference between a brave man and a coward is very simple. It is a problem of love. A coward loves only himself ... The brave man loves other men first and himself last. (From Meyer's The Son)
Phillipp Meyer
#82. No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward
Aesop
#83. I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.
Suzanne Palmieri
#84. The word "fronting" was important to Rob. A coward who acted tough was fronting. A nerd who acted dumb was fronting. A rich kid who acted poor was fronting. Rob found the instinct very offensive, and in college he saw it all around.
Jeff Hobbs
#85. He fought her the way a coward fights a man--with feet, the palms of his hands, and teeth.
Toni Morrison
#87. I know I said that I always choose the anticlimactic over the irrevocable, and yes of course what I meant was that I have always been a coward, but I lied: not always, there was that night, there was that one time.
Tana French
#88. A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
Chinua Achebe
#89. But I knew that I would have to live forever with what I did on that night of dying, and that if I chose to be a coward, I would have to repeat such cowardice over and over again in order to justify that it had ever occurred.
Kate Horsley
#90. What do you want from me?"
"Own up to it. I can live with a cheater, but not with a coward.
Aleksandr Voinov
#91. That's weak! You don't know what caring is ... Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance. Hell's bells, Roderick, if love was that easy everyone would have it. You're a coward!
Karen Marie Moning
#92. My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.
Richard Wurmbrand
#93. 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 Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.
John James Audubon
#94. I'm a coward, I close my eyes. I don't understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.
Christopher Pike
#95. But they were all thinking the selfsame thing: I might be a disgrace to my country. I might be a coward, even. But I'm not up there in those woods getting shot at
Shelby Foote
#96. No whimpering, madam! You can't have the joys of motherhood without some of its pangs! Think of your blessings, and don't be a coward! -
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#97. I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.
Swami Vivekananda
#98. I think before I act
and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.
John Christopher
#99. A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
Michel De Montaigne
#100. The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.
Paulo Coelho
