Coward Quotes - Page 24

• War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.

  Eric L. Haney

  Selfish, War, Men

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• Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Bravery

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

  Joseph Stalin

  Fear, Army, Men

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• When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

  B. C. Forbes

  Chickens, Betting, Ifs

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• I understood that there would be some backlash, and that scared me, honestly. But deep down, I felt like it was the right thing to do. And if I was to run away from what I felt in my soul was the right thing to do, that would make me a coward. I can’t live with that. God wouldn’t be able to put me where I am today, and as far as I’ve come in life, if I was a coward.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Running, Soul, Able

  "Andrew Hawkins delivered an excellent speech regarding his call for justice". Andrew Hawkins' speech on his decision to wear a "Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford" T-shirt during warm-ups and introductions before the game against the Bengals, waitingfornextyear.com. December 15, 2014.

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• There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Public Opinion, Opinion

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves - there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? - are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help - can you face him honestly?).

  James Fenton

  Running, War, Fall

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• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Made, Certain, Manifest

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• A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Doe, Members

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters,
  So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

  Grantland Rice

  Military, Eye, Fate

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• Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Mean, Boys, Laughing

  Zora Neale Hurston (2002). “Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

  Herman Melville

  Happiness, Success, Fear

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.126, Velvet Element Books

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• Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Teacher, Offering

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.98, A&C Black

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• I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

  Kevin Garnett

  Giving Up, Type, Rough

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• The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.

  Erwin McManus

  Heart, Men, People

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.89, Thomas Nelson

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• When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Thug, Men

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.46, Penguin

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• For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

  Adolf Hitler

  Wise, Military, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species of falsehood is more frequent than flattery, to which the coward is betrayed by fear, the dependent by interest, and the friend by tenderness: those who are neither servile nor timorous are yet desirous to bestow pleasure; and, while unjust demands of praise continue to be made, there will always be some whom hope, fear, or kindness will dispose to pay them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Men, Order

  Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.101

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• Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Men, Hearted

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• Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Honor, May

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.9, Paladin Press

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• Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.

  Dominick Cruz

  Mma, Conditioning

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• Everybody has questioned my heart, questioned my training ethics, this and that, but I never did something as cowardly as to take any sports-enhancement drug...That's one thing no one can ever say about me, you know? That I was a coward and took sports-enhancement drugs, because I was afraid I was going to get my a** kicked in front of millions of people. So anybody out there who said I never had no heart, at least I wasn't a coward.

  B.J. Penn

  Sports, Heart, People

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• Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Truth, Men

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• Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fire, Religion, Crowns

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D". Book by James Boswell, 1791.

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• The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, Brave, Cases

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