Cowardly Quotes

• A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Cowardice, Bark, Bites

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book VII, 4, 13,

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• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, War, Fighting

  "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty" by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

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• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Peace, Clever

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Desire

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

  Ignazio Silone

  Destiny, Luck, Invention

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• It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Wicked Person, Envy, Gossip

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.176, Sophia Institute Press

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• I don't know" means "NO!" "I don't know" means "I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation." "I don't know" means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hurt, Dirty, Mean

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.38, Harmony

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• When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Reality, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.303, Discovery House

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• You can do anything you want to do.

  Estelle Getty

  Father Son, Want, Zombieland

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• You can do ANYTHING you want to do-This is your World

  Bob Ross

  World, Want, Can Do

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• You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

  Bill Russell

  Want, Enough, Macgyver

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• Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

  Elephants, Dawn, Hot

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• You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

  Betty Carter

  Want, Macgyver, Songwriting

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• Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.376, Cambridge University Press

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• The most seditious is the most cowardly.

  Tacitus

  Revolution

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 34, AD 117.

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• We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

  Antonin Sertillanges

  Pressure, Return, Spirit

  A. G. Sertillanges (1987). “The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods”, p.213, CUA Press

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• I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

  David Mamet

  Two, Lazy, Cowardly Acts

  "Mamet Talk" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2008.

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• A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

  Stephen King

  Leadership, Men, Vision

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

  Ben Horowitz

  Decision, Choices, Courageous

  "Ben Horowitz: There's a fine line between fear and courage". fortune.com. August 5, 2011.

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• To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Doers, Cowardly Acts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.

  Doc Hastings

  Believe, May, Defeat

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• Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Bullying, Heart, Mind

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• When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter from it, but fling yourself upon it, and, though its sweep be awful, you shall be sustained. Only do this, do all, not in presumptuous daring, but in divine submission; in dependence, not on any strength that can be spent, but on the ever-living stay of all that trust in Him.

  James Martineau

  Blessed, Visits You, Soul

  James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

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• Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.

  Michael Grant

  Monsters, Weak, Terrible

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• We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

  Denis Johnson

  Heart, Torn, Chests

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.11, Macmillan

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