Coward Quotes

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer

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?

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

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.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

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!

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

All the learn'd are cowards by profession.

The coward's weapon, poison.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

We want to tell him [Blair] 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.

Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.

Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.

Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

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.

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

Bullies are always cowards.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

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!

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward