Coward Quotes - Page 25

• Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Freedom, Hands, Feelings

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.174, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

  John M. Tobin, Jr.

  Kindness, Women, Hands

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• Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng -
  The cowed and the meek -
  Who see the world's great anguish and its
  wrong
  And dare not speak!

  Ralph Chaplin

  Honesty, Lying, Integrity

  "Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin". Book by Ralph Chaplin, 1922.

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• You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Country, Daughter

  "Ziauddin Yousafzai: learn from Malala, use your own voice to demand rights" by Anna Leach, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2014.

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• Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Character, Order, Political

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.

  Garrison Wynn

  Hero, Opportunity, Action

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• Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

  Murong Xuecun

  Safe, Criticise

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• O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
  Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Men, Vices

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”, p.105

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• This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Bed, Flesh

  1596-7 Henry IV Part One, act 2, sc.5, l.245-52.

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• A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Courage, Men, Thinking

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

  Seal

  Survivor, Navy Seal, Moderation

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• These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.

  Chris Grayling

  Media, Troll, Internet

  "Crackdown on the cyber-mobs poisoning Britain: Sentence for web trolls to be quadrupled to two years after shocking high-profile online abuse cases" By Glen Owen, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 18, 2014.

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• Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Encouragement, Brave, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win.

  Jean-Michel Charlier

  Hero, Thinking, Winning

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• "Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them like a man. Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly. Don't let the soldiers come in and cut down poor-creatures who are driven mad. I see one there who is. If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak to them, man to man."

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Passion, Cutting, Men

  "North and South". Book by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855.

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• Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

  Stephenie Meyer

  Bully, Swagger

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.429, Hachette UK

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• And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.

  Khalid ibn al-Walid

  Sleep, Eye, Here I Am

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• May the eyes of cowards never sleep

  Khalid ibn al-Walid

  Eye, Sleep, May

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• Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but also as a determination to live decently. A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Determination, Men, Thinking

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• I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.

  John Buchan

  Believe, Passion, Men

  John Buchan (2017). “Prester John”, p.114, BookRix

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• The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

  Pema Chodron

  Husband, Thinking, People

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• If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Warrior, Men, Forever

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Peace, Real, War

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  Jack Welch

  People, Appraisal, Knows

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• The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

  Simon Sinek

  Eye, Leader, Looks

  "Failure Is An Option: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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