Top 71 Men Are Cowards Quotes
#1. Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.
The Difference lies, as far as I can see,
Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.
John Wilmot
#2. There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.
Ludwig Lewisohn
#3. Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man.
Eric Ambler
#6. The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.
Richard Llewellyn
#7. Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.
Swami Vivekananda
#8. To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln
#9. A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? 'Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man ... only 500?'
Meredith Willson
#10. All this had already given us an inkling of what the new regime was about. There was still some hope, however. There is always some hope, especially for cowards. I was one of them, one of those cowardly or hopeful young men who still thought the government had something to offer.
Reinaldo Arenas
#11. Most men are more afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#12. All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.
Johnny Depp
#13. Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.
Damon Meredith
#15. All great men pay some price for their dreams, but cowards remain in debt to fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#17. Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.
Jeff Cooper
#18. Death and destruction are necessary to the health of the world, and therefore as natural, and lovable, as birth and life. Only priests and born cowards moan and weep over dying. Brave men face it with approving nonchalance.
Ragnar Redbeard
#19. Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.
Milt Gross
#20. Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.
William Hazlitt
#21. All men would be cowards if they could.
John Wilmot
#22. To sin by silnce when they should protest makes cowards of men (and women)...
Abe Lincoln
#25. There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not outnumber the living many times over. Most beautiful children are dead. Most soldiers, most cowards. The fairest women and the most learned men - all are dead.
Gene Wolfe
#28. If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men - and cowards.
Erwin Schrodinger
#29. Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!
Charles Spurgeon
#30. Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.
Lord Chesterfield
#31. That all men would be cowards if they dare,
Some men we know have courage to declare.
George Crabbe
#34. I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served.
Stephanie Adams
#35. I had never seen more clearly how streets like these were made for and by amoral cowards, men who made money in rubber or sugar or copper or steel in remote places then returned here where no one questioned their practices, their treatment of others, their greed.
Lily King
#36. Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.
William Gurnall
#37. Glory?
Glory is for those too weak to find their inner strength, leaving them hollow parasites, feeding on the affection of even lesser men. Glory is for cowards, too afraid to let their names die.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#38. Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors.
Takeda Shingen
#39. Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.
Stonewall Jackson
#40. Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.
George Herbert
#41. Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth
the cowards!
Joaquin Miller
#42. Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.
Dean Koontz
#43. Bullies are just men who don't know they are cowards, of course.
Antonia Hodgson
#44. Such a brute should underneath all his braggart tricks, his viciousness, his vileness, be a coward. But I am convinced that he was not. Because even cowardice requires a certain degree of sensitivity, and a certain value for life.
Warren Eyster
#45. Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
Samuel Johnson
#46. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss Westcott
#47. For there is one thing we must never forget ... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.
Adolf Hitler
#49. The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
William Butler
#50. It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe
Christopher Paolini
#51. God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and commanded us to be men.
Sterling W. Sill
#52. The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
Gregory David Roberts
#53. Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.
A.B. Simpson
#54. All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
George S. Patton
#55. There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. Even if men admit they are cowards, they still want to be saved. There is no "harmonious development," no child-rearing program, no self-reliance that would take away from men their need for a "beyond" on which to base the meaning of their lives.
Ernest Becker
#57. There are moments in history when men who are not necessarily fools or cowards behave as if they felt themselves conscientious executors named to administer some general heritage of cowardice and folly...
Edmond Taylor
#58. 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.
K.J. Parker
#59. Merely for safety, after fame we thirst,
For all men would be cowards if they durst.
John Wilmot
#60. An irrational society is a society of moral cowards-
of men paralyzed by the loss of moral standards , principles, and goals
Ayn Rand
#62. Men conscious of inferiority are always trying to impose themselves on others, because they know that underneath they are cowards or cretins.
Helen Simpson
#63. The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.
Erwin McManus
#64. For all Men would be Cowards if they durst:
And Honesty's against all common Sense.
John Wilmot
#65. We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#66. There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
Henry Ward Beecher
#67. An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
Ambrose Bierce
#68. But if that's not enough, then consider this: if the Night's Watch are truly brothers, then Lord Commander Mormont was our father. He lived and died for the Watch and he was betrayed by his own men, stabbed in the back by cowards. He deserved far better.
Jon Snow
#69. No medicine man or wise man knew why one man died and another lived. Wise men themselves often died before fools, and cowards before men who were brave.
Larry McMurtry
#70. Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
Oscar Wilde
#71. Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.
Germaine Greer
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