Top 100 The Coward Quotes
#1. So then, how can I trust you now?" Nathan asked. His tone was light, but his face was guarded. Now would be an ideal time for that kiss, my brain whispered, but I couldn't take the coward's way out. "Because," I said simply, "I'm in love with you.
Alicia Thompson
#2. Go for the impossible and you shall find out that it is possible! Impossibility is the fabrication of the coward and weak minds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
Horace
#4. Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#5. I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.
David Gemmell
#6. Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword
Oscar Wilde
#7. Order whatever punishment you like, from the coward's distance of a chain-lenght. You and Govart are two of a kind.
C.S. Pacat
#8. The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Aristotle.
#9. Cooper! Help!'
The coward turned and walked into the kitchen as if he hadn't seen me getting frogmarched by the estrogen squad.
Molly Harper
#10. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago.
For a little while I'm not afraid.
Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.
Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.
Ray Bradbury
#11. Blame is the coward's retreat.
They think it frees them, but it confines them ...
Blame is also the coward's warden.
Steve Maraboli
#12. Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides
#13. It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.
Swami Vivekananda
#14. The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters. - Cus D'Amato
Cus D'Amato
#15. Was my sin basically one of untruthfulness? Or, more likely, one of cowardice? But the liar knows the truth. The coward knows his fear and runs away.
Josephine Hart
#16. Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.
Vanna Bonta
#17. The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#18. It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
Plutarch
#19. The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
Margaret Mitchell
#20. Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
Walter Scott
#22. You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself
Swami Vivekananda
#23. It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
Junius
#24. Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
Cormac McCarthy
#25. There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.
David Gemmell
#26. We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
#27. And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898
Oscar Wilde
#28. The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.
Aristotle.
#29. But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never has to learn.
Marjorie M. Liu
#30. Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
Ralph Chaplin
#31. You kidnapped me! You've humiliated me, beat me, nearly gotten me rapped, and just a moment ago you had me suck a complete stranger's dick in a room full of twisted perverts. I love you, but I'm not the coward, Caled. I deserve to live or die on my own fucking terms.
C.J. Roberts
#32. The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer
Brian Tracy
#33. Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend.
Geraldine Brooks
#35. You're the coward, Caleb. Im not afraid to tell you how I feel. I'm not afraid to admit, that despite everything you've done to me, I love you.
C.J. Roberts
#36. Now shame on the coward soul, which wants the courage either to be a firm friend, or an open enemy.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#37. The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust
#39. Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch
as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Ambrose Bierce
#40. The coward believes he will live forever
If he holds back in the battle,
But in old age he shall have no peace
Though spears have spared his limbs.
Havamal - The Sayings Of The High One
#41. Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
Zora Neale Hurston
#42. They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
C.S. Lewis
#43. One courageous man who leaves the coward crowds behind himself and walks forward has the potential of changing the whole world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
Cormac McCarthy
#45. It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
#46. God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
Plutarch
#47. Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.
Ayn Rand
#50. Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.
Erik Christian Haugaard
#51. In the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unknown in spite of all the fears.
Osho
#52. The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows the coward is waiting to strike.
David A. Cleinman
#53. Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.
Thucydides
#54. By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest
heroism
David Gemmell
#55. The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.
Charles Spurgeon
#56. Not much. I've very little imagination. It's the imaginative chaps who suffer." "'The coward dies a thousand deaths
K.J. Charles
#57. Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.
L. Ron Hubbard
#58. It's the coward who says, 'This is fate' ... It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'
Swami Vivekananda
#60. The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.
Aleister Crowley
#61. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. I
Cormac McCarthy
#62. Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward's way, pining for life in the hereafter, acting like this one didn't mean a thing. I had to side with him on that.
Sue Monk Kidd
#63. Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.
Swami Vivekananda
#64. 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,
#65. Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.
Alexander Lowen
#66. He was not to perceive that of two men engaged in an action so hideous, he who permits the thing is worse than the man who does the work, because he is the coward!
Victor Hugo
#67. Strange that I knew it would end this way. Not in battle, but in a dirty alley, alone, hiding among the filth like the coward I was.
My poetic ending.
Ashlan Thomas
#68. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton
#69. The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?
Swami Vivekananda
#70. Is there any censorship in your country's media? Then you are definitely living in a fascist country! Censorship is the tool of the coward governments. Criminals are always afraid of the truths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.
Homer
#72. The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson
#73. Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}
Tupac Shakur
#74. The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.
George Crabbe
#75. Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave ... gets over it.
Rickson Gracie
#76. Ours is not the creed of the weakling and the coward; ours is the gospel of hope and triumphant endeavor." Theodore Roosevelt
Ryan Stallings
#79. The mark of the coward is that he attacks the defenseless.
Marty Rubin
#80. The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
George Sewell
#81. The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.
Publilius Syrus
#82. Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life.
Marjorie M. Liu
#85. 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
#86. 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
Sebastian Junger
#87. Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
James Russell Lowell
#88. Life is one big fat gamble, and the odds are never in your favor. So you either go for it anyway and toss the dice or you don't play. But not playing?" She jabbed him in the bare chest with her finger. "That's the coward's way out. And I hadn't pegged you for a coward. Figure your shit out.
Jill Shalvis
#89. The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell
#90. There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It's what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same, but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.
Cus D'Amato
#91. There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!
James A. Baldwin
#92. There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#93. A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#94. I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.
Rutger Hauer
#95. The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.
Cus D'Amato
#98. Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.
Theodore Roosevelt
#100. Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
Charles Caleb Colton
