Coward Quotes - Page 10

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

I'm a complete coward in real life.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

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.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

Only cowards torture women.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!

Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.

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.