Coward Quotes - Page 29

• Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

  Paulo Coelho

  Winning, Victory And Defeat, Form

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• I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

  Horace Walpole

  Men, Wife, Valor

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• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Courage, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.242, Рипол Классик

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• How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Lord, Thee

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book called Way of perfection. Interior castle. Conceptions of the love of God. Exclamations of the soul to God”

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• He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Suicide, Waiting, Spirit

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• That all men would be cowards if they dare,
  Some men we know have courage to declare.

  George Crabbe

  Men, Would Be, Dare

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.155

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• If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

  John Fowles

  Atheist, Intelligent, Definitions

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.

  Charles Portis

  Girl, Horse, Father

  "True Grit". Book by Charles Portis, Chapter 1 (p. 9), 1968.

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• Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for. [Jack kisses Rose passionately] Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward. [Jack kisses the Doctor the same way]

  Russell T Davies

  Fighting, Kissing, Doctors

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• If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Class, People, Definitions

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• They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world. A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

  Tim O'Brien

  Fall, Eye, Dip

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Hero, Funny Things, Fighter

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2011.

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• Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Realizing

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• The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

  Brent Weeks

  Would Be, Poison, Weak

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• I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus".

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• among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

  Tracy Kidder

  Weapons, Cynicism

  Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.241, Random House

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• Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.

  Tablo

  Believe, People, Needs

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• But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow. 'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail. 'It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.' 'Perhaps you have heart disease,' said the Tin Woodman. 'It may be,' said the Lion.

  L. Frank Baum

  Kings, Heart, Eye

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; The Marvelous Land of Oz; Ozma of Oz”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Heart, Sharks

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Fatigue

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• Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink, it's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. This doesn't make you a man. It makes you a coward.

  Joe Biden

  Girl, Powerful, Men

  "Federal Effort Targets Sexual Assaults At Colleges". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 5, 2011.

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• The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

  Pat Conroy

  Pride, Way, Endure

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.311, Open Road Media

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• Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

  Walter Raleigh

  Cowardice

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by William Oldys. The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by Tho. Birch”, p.360

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• In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mistake, Suffering, Looks

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• No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

  Homer

  Destiny, Men, Brave

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.207

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