Coward Quotes - Page 4

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another time, shall walk among our urns, shall hear no more. The good - that is what we must pursue, whatever the price, preferring the title of a dead hero to that of a living coward.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

The world is not for cowardly peoples.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

Reflection makes men cowards.

They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world. A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

The Spirit's fullness is not the reward of our faithfulness, but God's gift for our defeat. He was not given to the disciples in Acts 28 as the culmination and reward of their wonderful service, but in Acts 2 when they had proved themselves cowards, meeting behind closed doors.

Cowards can never be moral.

It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.