Coward Quotes - Page 11

• I Was An NFL Player Until I was Fired By Two Cowards and a Bigot.

  Chris Kluwe

  Player, Nfl, Two

  "https://deadspin.com/i-was-an-nfl-player-until-i-was-fired-by-two-cowards-an-1493208214". deadspin.com. January 02, 2014.

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• All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

  Johnny Depp

  Men, Would Be, Libertine

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• I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

  Trevor McDonald

  Facts, Terrible, Constant

  Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

  Sebastian Junger

  Warrior, Overcoming, Inability

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• God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

  Plutarch

  God, Men, Brave

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.178

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• Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

  Doris Lessing

  Women, Thinking, Numbers

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ignorance, People, Passionate

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• Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mind, Suffering

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4554, Manonmani Publishers

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• I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Order

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• Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ignorance, Fighting, Winning

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.79, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• A coward cannot have any prayer answered.

  Nichiren

  Prayer, Answered Prayers

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• A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Girl, Animal, Boys

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.19, Taylor Trade Publications

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• A fortress is of no use to cowards.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Use, Cowardice, Fortresses

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• Cowardice is no virtue.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Virtue, Cowardice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2044, Manonmani Publishers

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• The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Men, Class

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”

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• Africa with 400 million Black People can
  do it. If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it then you
  will DIE. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good
  for-nothings, if you cannot do what other men have done, what other
  nations have done, what other races have done, THEN YOU HAD BETTER DIE.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Race, People

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• The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

  Kit Carson

  Way, Weak, Dies

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• Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!

  Sylvester Stallone

  Fingers, Willing, Knows

  "Rocky Balboa". www.imdb.com. December 13, 2006.

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• The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

  Aleister Crowley

  Wise, Men, Giving

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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• What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

  Alexander Pope

  Blood, Ancestry, Slave

  Alexander Pope, Daniel Clark (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.58

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• You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Brave, Ifs

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles”, p.190, Random House

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• I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

  Jack Parsons

  Add, Needs, Dangerous

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• Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Tyrants

  Anthony Trollope (1864). “The Small House at Allington”, p.138

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• Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

  William Shakespeare

  Matter, Instinct

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.663, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

  Henny Youngman

  Religion, Accounts

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