Cowardly Quotes

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

There's no such thing as being cowardly in a fight. ~Edward Elric

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.

No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.

A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk. [Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]

Tradition has made women cowardly.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.