Quotes about coward

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions they never walk alone!

Damon Meredith -

The world is ruled by cowards and cravens brave men have put them there.

Shannon L. Alder -

A boy has other people do the talking for him a man speaks his mind.

Nico J. Genes - Magnetic Reverie

Can someone decide to leave everything and move to a dreamland?Was it possible?if yes, how can one do it without being called crazy or a coward?

Shannon L. Alder -

A coward talks to everyone but YOU.

Ferdinand Foch -

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

W.E.B. Du Bois - Dusk of Dawn

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Mark Lawrence - Prince of Fools

It’s often said that cowards make the best torturers. Cowards have good imaginations, imaginations that torment them with all the worst stuff of nightmare, all the horrors that could befall them. This provides an excellent arsenal when it comes to inflicting misery on others. And their final qualification is that they understand the fears of their victim better than the victim does himself.

D. Antoinette Foy -

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Two things I ask of my God today. That my faith be hoisted high like a kite up in the sky and my fear be buried deeply like a carcass into the soil.

Rebecca McNutt - Smog City

If you were me you’d do the right thing, help your friends, because you’re not a coward,” Mandy sighed sadly. “I covered up a murder because I was scared to go to jail and I did the wrong thing… well, now’s my chance to do the right thing, to save someone’s life, because I don’t want you to die.”“Save someone’s life? I’m no one,” Alecto laughed morbidly. “A hundred and twelve years is definitely way too long to have survived. You’d be wasting your time and risking your own life….”“This is my lif

Sanhita Baruah -

There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart,I didn't know why. By the time I made my mind that it was impossible for meto do, there alighted the fear, haunting me with the words that rangconstantly in my head, "You're not brave enough".I didn't feel devastated, I felt the urge to be devastated.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity

A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way

Michael Bassey Johnson -

...as we are endowed. ...with rhetorics. ...none will deny. ...of innocence. ...towards scribbling. ...of love lines. ...and of lust. ...to what seems like male. ...to what seems like female. ...in those days. ...I mean nothing. ...but in high school.....even me. ...I can't deny.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

You feed your fears to grow muscles against you when you run away from what frightens you. Little do you know that it’s frightened when you face it boldly!

Simon R. Green - Ghost of a Chance

They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

Allen Wheelis - How People Change

One theft, however, does not make a thief . . Action which defines a man, describes his character, is action which has been repeated over and over and so has come in time to be a coherent and relatively independent mode of behavior. At first it may have been fumbling and uncertain, may have required attention, effort, will - as when first drives a car, first makes love, first robs a bank, first stands up against injustice. If one perseveres on any such course it comes in time to require less eff

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe - Mirror

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

Only the winner and coward may survive.

Criss Jami - Healology

Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty ten

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.

Israelmore Ayivor -

When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.

Shannon L. Alder -

Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.

Cathy Burnham Martin - The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

Liars are highly unlikely to admit their lies, never mind apologize for the hurt they’ve caused. Liars don’t genuinely apologize. Deceit has become their full-out lifestyle. They are centered on themselves with no thoughts of the consequences of their lies. In cowardly style, they tell more lies to try and cover their tracks. They are not good at admitting they actually have shortcomings.

Pushpa Rana - Just the Way I Feel

Men's courage is reflected when he snaps at a women.

Nancy Springer - The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie as you!

L.A. Meyer -

I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.

Criss Jami -

Any coward can be a peacekeeper! In fact, that comes to one naturally. But they are blessed, the peacemakers...and all those who know the difference.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.

Vann Chow - The White Man and the Pachinko Girl

Having a date with someone other than your ex-wife after being a married man for more than twenty five years was an important occasion alright, but wearing a tie she bought with such strong emotional value attached to it was a form of cowardice, a subconscious reluctance to let go.

Heather Day Gilbert - Forest Child

I am happy to be alone. Perhaps this is true. Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.

Joe Abercrombie - Best Served Cold

Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

Veronica Roth - Allegiant

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

Peter S. Beagle - The Last Unicorn

I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.

Theodore Roosevelt -

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

John Fowles - The Magus

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

Mahatma Gandhi -

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.

Steve Maraboli -

Blame is the coward’s retreat.They think it frees them, but it confines them… Blame is also the coward’s warden.

Emmanuel Jal -

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

Rachel Hartman - Shadow Scale

The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards...," Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.

paul kagame -

You kept quit... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quit.

Mark Lawrence - Prince of Fools

Battles are all about strategy, and strategy pivots on priorities. Since my priorities were Prince Jalan, Prince Jalan, and Prince Jalan, with “looking good” a distant fourth, I took the opportunity to resume running away. I find that the main thing about success is the ability to act in the moment. A hero attacks in the moment; a good coward runs in it. The rest of the world waits for the next moment and ends up as crow food.

Charles de Leusse -

Cowards excuse themselves by the children. Heroes excuse the children. (Les lâches s'excusent par les enfants. - Les héros excusent les enfants.)

Jennifer L. Armentrout - Every Last Breath

A.Coward," he repeated, and I briefly considered picking up the vase in the center of the island and throwing it at him."Not making a choice is the coward's way out. You love both of them. I get that. But you don't feel the same kind of love for both of them, and the sooner you accept that the better.

Donna Lynn Hope -

Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you.

Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Adam Johnson - The Orphan Master's Son

To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero

Joseph Skinner -

The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life.

Toba Beta -

Chirp of coward shouted in crowd,dare to speak but not to be known.

M.F. Moonzajer - A moment with God ; Poetry

A wounded lover is more dangerous than a coward army.

Toba Beta - Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

A brave heart doesn't pump coward's blood.

Nicole Christie - Falling for the Ghost of You

The thing is… I was a very proud girl. I never wanted to take the chance I might get hurt. Isn’t that funny? I was game for any exciting adventure that came my way, but when it came to risking my heart, I was a coward.

Patricia Nedelea - Constant Guests

Coincidences are the explanations of lazy and cowardly people for what they don't understand.

Criss Jami -

They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.

Dashiell Hammett - The Thin Man

Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling.""I didn't mean no harm," I said and kissed her. "That a new dress?""Ah! Changing the subject, you coward.

Criss Jami - Electric Personality

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

Mark Lawrence - Prince of Fools

I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.

Donna Lynn Hope -

She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before her?Does she set fire and smoke him out, forcing him to fight, or does she let him live with himself and take satisfaction from knowing that he has never been in a real fight in his life and that one day he will have to face his demons in person, along with the consequences, and that both can be far more painful than anything she could ever do to him.

Orlando Figes - A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!

Michael Bassey Johnson - The Infinity Sign

No matter how hard we try to separate, and if eventually we finally separate, we are just fooling around thinking we had parted, yet our hearts dwells where we cowardly believed we had left.

Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He was probably a coward,' she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Marjorie M. Liu - Shadow Touch

Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life.

Mark Lawrence - Prince of Fools

Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed.

Ogwo David Emenike -

Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.

Lera Auerbach - Excess of Being

A coward is a servant of his fears.A hero enslaves his fears.

Bradley B. Dalina -

Turning back against your responsibilityas a father is the most spineless thing you can do.

Rose Wynters - My Wolf Cowboy

You, sir, are not only a selfish asshole, but you're a coward. You didn't have the balls to stand and fight for what was yours, instead you chose to flee and force others into a fight that wasn't even theirs to begin with.

Rafael Sabatini - Scaramouche

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

Assegid Habtewold -

If you respect & care about someone, give him/her direct feedback in his/her face. Please don't be coward and use proxies! Be a man/woman!!!

Gene Stratton-Porter - The Harvester

From an outside viewpoint it seems as if I had almost all a man could ask in reason. But when was a strong man in the grip of love ever reasonable? I think the Almighty took a pretty grave responsibility when He made men as He did. If I had been He, and understood the forces I was handling, I would have been too big a coward to do it.

Asma Naqi -

The most coward person is the one who uses religion to win an argument.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

People with positive attitude can see great things even in worse situations. Only cowards give up because the worst happened to them.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Bold people dance happily when they are confronted with life’s adventures... they see themselves going through with smiles... Give no excuse for being a coward. Be bold!

Jum Jumms -

You can't be a man and a coward at the same time.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Action separates the heroes from the cowards, the achievers from the complainers, the successful from the mere dreamers, the happy from the envious; it separates those who rise to the challenge of their goals from the haters who cower in the shadow of stagnancy.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

George W. Bush -

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Voltaire -

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

George Sewell -

The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.

Horace Smith -

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Thomas Fuller -

Despair gives courage to a coward.