Coward Quotes - Page 18

There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren’t the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)

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.

Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that.

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.

God will not make himself manifest to cowards

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

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.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

He is never cowardly.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.