Coward Quotes - Page 8

• Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.

  Caterina Sforza

  Daughter, Men, May

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• The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Strength, Courage, Pain

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• I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

  Christopher Pike

  Eye, Sight, Made

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst No. 5: The Sacred Veil”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

  William Hazlitt

  Silly, Men, Two

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• As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.

  Lev Grossman

  Running, Fear, Teenager

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, Viking Press

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• Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

  Milt Gross

  Liars, Golf, Men

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• Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Death, Adventure

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

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• The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Gambling, Anxiety, Risk

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby

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• But if that's not enough, then consider this: if the Night's Watch are truly brothers, then Lord Commander Mormont was our father. He lived and died for the Watch and he was betrayed by his own men, stabbed in the back by cowards. He deserved far better.

  Jon Snow

  Brother, Father, Night

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• Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors.

  Takeda Shingen

  Real, Warrior, Men

  "Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors". Book by William Scott Wilson, p. 92, 1982.

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• I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

  Samuel West

  Acting, Tests

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• It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Fate

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• Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Gun, Use, Protect

  "'I just wanted to kill'". Interview with Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2008.

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• If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.

  Chinua Achebe

  Warrior, Long, Fearless

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.87, Heinemann

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• It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Pride, Emotional

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

  Kelly Reilly

  Girl, Noel, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.

  Big Boi

  Adages

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• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  Children, Brave, Facts

  "Cai Guo-Qiang: Exploding expectations" by Dean Irvine, www.cnn.com. July 27, 2008.

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• An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions.

  Vincent de Paul

  Leadership, Christian, Country

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

  Rutger Hauer

  Running, Heart, Fighting

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• The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.

  Homer

  Fear, Heart, Rocks

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• I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.

  L.A. Meyer

  Peaceful

  L. A. Meyer (2004). “Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!" "Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?

  Alex Scarrow

  Fighting, Said, Please

  "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 2011.

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• A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Lying, Men, Race

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• Coward is the most misused word in our society.

  Doug Stanhope

  Society, Misused Words, Our Society

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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