Courage Cowardly Quotes

#1. What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe ... but thankfully it's still intact.

Ben Saunders

#2. Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.

Emil Cioran

#3. To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

Seneca The Elder

#5. Do you think Oz could give me courage? asked the Cowardly Lion.

L. Frank Baum

#6. It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

Edgar Degas

#7. It's too cowardly, and besides, I don't have the courage. [on why he hadn't killed himself yet]

Nick Drake

#8. It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. When I left SNL, I gave Seth a badge of courage, like Dorothy give to the Cowardly Lion ... He kept it in his pocket during "Update" until he didn't need it anymore. Now it sits in a box on his desk at Late Night.

Amy Poehler

#10. The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.

Stephen Fry

#11. It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.

Rinko Kawauchi

#12. A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#13. Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Robert Crumb

#14. It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Herodotus

#15. The intellectual world is deeply conformist ... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

Noam Chomsky

#16. But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.

Dexter Palmer

#17. As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

Anne Bonny

#18. And then I should get no brains," said the Scarecrow. "And I should get no courage," said the Cowardly Lion. "And I should get no heart," said the Tin Woodman. "And I should never get back to Kansas," said Dorothy.

L. Frank Baum

#19. As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

LeBron James

#20. The form is the possibility of the structure.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#21. Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

Joseph Epstein

#22. Brave sheep are better than cowardly wolves.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.

Kevin Sessums

#24. What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#25. One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Thomas Reed

#26. Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

Michael Jordan

#27. There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

Tacitus

#28. Ce'Nedra returned, frowning and a little angry. "They won't give me their eggs, Lady Polgara," she complained. "They're sitting one them." "You have to reach under them and take the eggs, dear." "Won't that make them angry?" "Are you afraid of a chicken?

David Eddings

#29. Remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.

Marie Angelique Arnauld