Coward Quotes - Page 6

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Slander is the tool of cowards.

Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out . . . what I can endure . . . if I measure up. Running allows that.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.

Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.

The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.