Top 100 Quotes About Cowards
#1. Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
#2. 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
#3. We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own." Her
Chris Cleave
#4. 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
#5. Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
Billy Childish
#6. The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#7. Blair ... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#8. 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
#9. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the pieces after it's all over and carrying on. We can choose to be cowards who fear letting someone inside us, and do that alone. Or we can choose to be brave and let someone stand by our side and help us.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. Second-baseman Eddie Stanky spoke for the whole team when he shouted at the opposing dugout: "Listen, you yellow-bellied cowards, why don't you yell at somebody who can answer back?
Eric Metaxas
#11. Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.
Marcel Proust
#12. Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
R.J. Rushdoony
#13. The State that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
Thucydides
#14. 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
#16. I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
Bram Stoker
#17. 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
#19. The impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.
Charles Bukowski
#20. Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.
Thomas Otway
#21. Sobriety isn't for cowards, Chief Inspector. Whatever you might think of an alcoholic, to get sober, really sober demands great honesty, and that demands great courage. Stopping drinking's the easy part. Then we have to face ourselves. Our demons. How many people are willing to do that?
Louise Penny
#22. If you want to call a man to account, don't do it when he is weak; call him to account when he is strong! Cowards choose the first way and the valiant choose the second way.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.
Dolly Parton
#24. It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.
Marjane Satrapi
#25. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.
Johnny Depp
#27. Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they're not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve.
Gregory David Roberts
#28. Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.
David Mitchell
#30. Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
George Bernard Shaw
#31. Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.
Scylar Tyberius
#32. My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot you in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders are worse.
Michael Moore
#33. What did he see, I wonder? What avenue opened before him? A sudden way through, an escape from all the torment? Or was it just the venal act of a selfish child, wanting to somehow punish the woman standing before him ... just passing the guilt along, as cowards will do. Well,
Steven Erikson
#35. There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.
Brian Jacques
#36. 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
#37. The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.
Damon Meredith
#38. Bullshit!" Thor shouted at the stage, causing the actor playing Estelle to look at the audience. Thor added, "Just leave. Be done with this nightmare of a play! Goddamn cowards!
Dylan Callens
#39. Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Charles Horton Cooley
#40. All great men pay some price for their dreams, but cowards remain in debt to fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.
Conan O'Brien
#42. Cheaters are cowards that are tempted to chase the fantasy of what could be ... instead of courageously addressing their own self-destructive behavior and cultivating what is.
Steve Maraboli
#43. Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi
#45. Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. When the rivers and air are polluted, when families and nations are at war, when homeless wanderers fill the highways, these are traditional signs of a dark age. Another is that people become poisoned by self-doubt and become cowards.
Pema Chodron
#47. Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Tacitus
#48. And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.
Khalid Ibn Al-Walid
#49. How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
William Shakespeare
#50. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
Doris Lessing
#51. I Was An NFL Player Until I was Fired By Two Cowards and a Bigot,
Chris Kluwe
#52. Only cowards push a button from thousands of miles away, or tens of thousands of feet up, to kill people who can't possibly fight back.
Bill Maher
#53. In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. 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
#55. Rationalization is Resistance's right-hand man. Its job is to keep us from feeling the shame we would feel if we truly faced what cowards we are for not doing our work.
Steven Pressfield
#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. Who needs a castle? Surely not a courageous man! Who needs a guard? Surely not a brave man! Who needs a gun? Surely not a strong man! Cowards need castles, they need guards and guns, simply because they are weak and chicken hearted!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Russell Baker
#60. Cowards drown in a pond. The extraordinary flourish in the middle of the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. He said cynicism's self-protection, a defense mechanism used by cowards who give up on love because they're afraid love's given up on them.
Linda Yellin
#62. 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
#63. I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.
Alberto Salazar
#64. Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. If we are to succeed, we must maintain our anonymity, mask our identities. Even if it means suffering the mockery of others. Being taken for fools, fops, nitwits, even cowards.
Emmuska Orczy
#66. I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.
Cees Nooteboom
#67. All men would be cowards if they could.
John Wilmot
#68. The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one' ... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward ... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
Ernest Hemingway,
#70. 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
#71. Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.
Aubrey Dark
#72. Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman.
George Farquhar
#73. Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls;
Conscience is but a work that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!
William Shakespeare
#74. Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.
George Meyer
#75. 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
#76. I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.
William Borah
#77. The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards ... , Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.
Rachel Hartman
#78. For every hero, a thousand cowards," said Hel. "For every brave death, a thousand senseless ones.
Rick Riordan
#79. People who don't face their problems head-on are the worst kind of cowards.
Jenny Han
#80. Maybe Adalwulf truly has nothing tae fear for I see before me only cowards willing tae sacrifice everything for the sake of their lives! - Aiden
Claire M. Banschbach
#81. Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
William Shakespeare
#82. Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense
Mignon McLaughlin
#83. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards ... , Maurizio said, shrugging, clearly implying that [they] were cowards.
Rachel Hartman
#84. Cowards ... 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.
Simon Sinek
#85. It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity.
Philip Massinger
#86. Action separates the heroes from the cowards, the achievers from the complainers, the successful from the mere dreamers, the happy from the envious; it separates those who rise to the challenge of their goals from the haters who cower in the shadow of stagnancy.
Steve Maraboli
#87. Cowards and courage make for great conflict. Embodied within the statement above is the idea that imperfect heroes are the most satisfying because true courage is facing what you fear, trying even though the odds of failure are great. Internal
Debra Dixon
#88. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!
Sylvester Stallone
#89. I can only miss the true and I can only mourn the brave. Cowards make it easy to let go because you're not losing anything worth having.
Donna Lynn Hope
#91. The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid
#92. Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.
Martha Gellhorn
#93. For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. Then, I'll find an empty restroom and check my hair and fix my lipstick, or as we cowards like to call it, hide.
Katja Millay
#96. Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Queen Elizabeth II
#97. Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.
Novala Takemoto
#98. I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
Richard Cobden
#99. The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.
E. M. Forster
#100. They were cowards, too. Everyone is.
John Green
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