Coward Quotes - page 3

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward. (Swami Vivekananda)
I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward. View quote
Jesse Owens
At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed. View quote
Klaus Kinski
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done-that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward. View quote
Piers Anthony
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born. View quote
Homer
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born. View quote
Homer
A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. View quote
William Shakespeare
Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward. View quote
Julius Streicher
Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit. (Stefan Zweig)
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that. View quote
Rick Riordan
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. View quote
Jose Bergamin
I'm a charming coward; I fight with words. View quote
Carl Reiner
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. View quote
David Seabury
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy. View quote
Cai Guo-Qiang
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways. View quote
Gene Hackman
I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward. View quote
Namie Amuro
I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life. View quote
Trevor McDonald
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. (Thomas Jefferson)
President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. View quote
Kevin Costner
It was of no use. That particular sort of coward and evader he was not, and he lay abed facing all his sins, all his slacknesses, and the merited punishment by a just and angry God. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier Is vacant in the west, while far and near Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks, Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry Amid thy cloud-built streets. View quote
Frederick William Faber
Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still. View quote
Haruki Murakami