Coward Quotes - Page 14

• 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.

  Usher

  Men, Alive, Way

  "Caught Up". Vibe Magazine, July 2008.

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• I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

  Gene Wolfe

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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• We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how Earl Nightingale saw it. He said the opposite of courage was not cowardness, it was conformity. The next time you are encouraged to fall into line, to be a sport and everything in you says no - be courageous and go your own way. There is no compensation in conformity.

  Bob Proctor

  Sports, Fall, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 05, 2011

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• How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

  Tests, Ridicule, Reasoning

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• I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served.

  Stephanie Adams

  Men, Justice, Trying

  Stephanie Adams (2008). “Goddessy: 2010 Astrological Photo Calendar”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.

  Roberto Bolano

  Real, Latin, Eye

  "Last Evenings on Earth". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2006.

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• Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Hands, Safe

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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• We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Panic, He Man

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4511, Delphi Classics

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• The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

  Aristotle

  Men, Brave, Foolhardy

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.54

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• O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?

  Horace

  Art, Stupid, Wine

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.362, Delphi Classics

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• But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his forgiveness, was meant for them all, and for all their sins. The mercy and love of God are at work even in the midst of his enemies. It is the same Jesus Christ, who of his grace calls us to follow him, and whose grace saves the murderer who mocks him on the cross in his last hour.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Prayer, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.34, SCM Press

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Envy, Way

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• When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

  Chinua Achebe

  Fighting, Men, Hungry

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 09, 2016

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• Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

  Vanna Bonta

  Slander, Implementing

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• Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Terror, Every Man

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• The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Struggle, Philosopher, Poor

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.387, Delphi Classics

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• Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Mother, Son, Men

  "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part IV, Book VI, Chapter XII. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 665, 1802.

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• 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.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Heart, Thinking, Light

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge (1849). “Ambarvalia: Poems”, p.14

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• Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

  Germaine Greer

  Military, Real, Hero

  "Daddy, We Hardly Knew You". Book by Germaine Greer, 1989.

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• A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Fighting, May

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.50, Heinemann

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• 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

  Pain, Passion, Flesh

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world

  Toni Morrison

  Gun, World, Dangerous

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• I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

  Bobby Fischer

  Cells, Mind, Want

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. May 24, 1999.

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• The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!

  George Eliot

  Jesus, Should Have, Saint

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4137, Delphi Classics

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• Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Stars, Bridges, Rising

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