Coward Quotes - Page 27

• I am no coward; but I am so strong, so hard to die.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Strong, Hard, Dies

  "History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark".

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• Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to frighten cowards with the threat of evil and of sin. But the power that lives beyond those stories, and makes them strong indeed, that lives in nightmares and in sleep. That is ribbed into the very fabric of conscious being. The power of love and hate.

  David Clement-Davies

  Strong, Children, Hate

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• Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another time, shall walk among our urns, shall hear no more. The good - that is what we must pursue, whatever the price, preferring the title of a dead hero to that of a living coward.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Hero, Titles, Gone

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• The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Fall, Fighting, Winning

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.308, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

  C. S. Lewis

  Eagles, Tears, Doe

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

  Cus D'Amato

  Hero, Feels

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• There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It’s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same, but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.

  Cus D'Amato

  Hero, Differences, Discipline

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• A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

  Tupac Shakur

  Courage, Soldier, Thousand

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• The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.

  Sam Harris

  Men, Media, Perfect

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Liars, Men, Vanity

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who is left.' Don't you see? No one will be left. Protect them now or there will be no one to protect!' This is a battle that goes on and on. It never ends. You're too young to understand. No! You're too much of a coward to fight.' I was sick of lies and secrets and of battles so old we had to erase who we were to fight back. And still we lost. Still we were tied to posts.

  Alice Hoffman

  Lying, Fighting, People

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• Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.

  Garth Nix

  Dog, Smell, Said

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.301, Hot Key Books

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• Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.

  Mas Oyama

  Risk, Victory, Way

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• Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

  Homer

  Fighting, Swings, Skills

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• I say to Floyd Mayweather Jr., don't be a coward and face me in the ring, mano a mano, and shut your big, pretty mouth so we can show the world who is the true king of the ring.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Kings, World, Mouths

  "Manny Pacquiao tells Mayweather: merry Christmas - I'll see you in court" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2009.

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• Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

  Mike Tyson

  Running, Father, Hero

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• No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss

  Chino XL

  Blood, Soldier, Matter

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• And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cutting, Two, Ems

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• Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Distance, Oxygen, Parent

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• I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

  Margaret Atwood

  Saint, Cripples, Wounds

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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• Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Hurt, Revenge, World

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• If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Wind

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• Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.

  James Hervey

  Teacher, Intelligent, Men

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• Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Great Love, Democracy

  "Thy Kingdom Come, Studies in Daniel and Revelation" by R.J. Rushdoony, (p. 39), 1970.

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